Re: X 4.1.0 0pre1v1.3 debs on pismo (not working)

[Steven Hanley <sjh@svana.org>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:52:55AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> That's the chip hanging because the flat panel registers have been programmed
> for bogus panel dimensions (because we don't have a video BIOS). Either add
> 
>     Option 	"PanelWidth"	"1024"
>     Option	"PanelHeight"	"768"
> 
> (everyone needs to specify their panel size of course ;) or
> 
>     Option	"ProgramFPRegs"	"No"
> 
> to Section "Device".
> 
> I'm working on a way to make the server exit gracefully when these are missing
> but haven't succeeded yet.

okay I added the panelwidth and panelheight

> DRI only works in depth 16 or depth 24, fbbpp 32, but on a Pismo there's not
> enough video RAM to hold all the necessary buffers for the latter so you're
> pretty much stuck with depth 16. You're gonna need
> http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/fbdev/aty128fb-16bit.diff to use
> that with UseFBDev.

a kernel patch, hmm is this going into ben's tree any time soon? oh well shall
rsync the latest benh tree and apply it and see what happens.
 
> > Going to go read the README.DRI again to see how to work out if it is
> > working. 
> 
> Also read the DRI user guide at http://dri.sf.net/doc/DRIuserguide.html .

well the README.DRI in the X Free tarball is pretty much that document as far
as I can tell.
 
> > Weirdly the mentions of UseFBDev in the vgaHW thread seemed to indicate it
> > was not needed, I never had it in my config file before now (for 4.0.1
> > drivers)
> 
> It's not needed but I recommend it for a variety of reasons including but not
> limited to better sleep support. You've experienced at least two other
> reasons. ;)

well I just tried the thing with UseFBDev disabled and those options you
mention above in there, it at least didnt cause the computer to lock up and
screen to melt, but it didnt bring up X, so I am going to get a kernel with
the above stuff going and try again with UseFBDev.

        See You
            Steve

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