Re: XFree 4.0.1-8 won't run on r128/ppc
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:52:41AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> I have a slot-loading iMac with Rage 128 video. All of the phase2 test
> packages of XFree86 4 ran fine on this machine.
>
> After upgrading xserver-xfree86 from phase2v27 to 4.0.1-8, the X server
> dies on startup with the following error (full log attached):
>
> (**) R128(0): Using framebuffer device
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
> (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.1f, module version = 0.0.2
> (--) R128(0): Chipset: "ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x524c)
> (--) R128(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x94000000
> (--) R128(0): MMIO registers at 0x90000000
> (--) R128(0): BIOS at 0x90020000
> (--) R128(0): VideoRAM: 8192 kByte (64-bit SDR SGRAM 2:1)
> (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
> (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
> (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not found!
> (II) R128(0): PLL parameters: rf=64483 rd=32888 min=2084831233
> max=-1146748152; xclk=19296
> (II) R128(0): initializing int10
> (EE) R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (4)
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
This is why I was not trying to just fix the compile errors in XF4 to
get it uploaded. The drivers are essentially broken. Sorry - just
won't work.
I aim to have fixed packages in a week or so, but no promises here.
Dan
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