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Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries



Michel Dänzer wrote:

> >     (--) PCI: (0:16:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x4c46) rev 2, Mem @
> > 0xa4000000/26, 0xa0000000/14, I/O @ 0x0400/8
>
> Are you sure the chip in those Notebooks is from the Rage128 family?

Yep.  It is a Rage 128 Mobility chip.


> If it's in fact from the mach64 family, you'll have to use the fbdev driver
> for now - you might need a recent kernel which corrects broken OF PCI memory
> ranges from though.

How recent a kernel do I need ?  One from CVS ?
I am using the one from Ben H's site (vmlinux-2.2.15pre14).
I don't know of any new kernels but I haven't looked for a couple of weeks.

I'll try the server on our G4 and see how that goes.

Brendan Simon.




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