Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet
Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm
going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does
anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will take?
Would it be possible to build and install only the ati driver, and leave
the rest as-is?
--peter
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote:
> I've put up mine at http://home.uchicago.edu/~obmontoy/XF86Config-4
>
> Getting XFree4 running on my Wallstreet was non-trivial. I originally
> got it working in LinuxPPC 2000, compiling my own from ajoshi's
> sources (search the linuxppc-user archives at
> http://lists.linuxppc.org/lists/linuxppc-user if you want); when I
> switched to Debian Unstable I couldn't get it working, so I just
> copied my whole /usr/X11R6 directory to my new /usr. A recent apt-get
> upgrade broke it again, but luckily I still had my old tarball and I
> got it going again right away. The interesting thing is that I've
> done another apt-get upgrade this week, and I think I got new XFree
> debs, but this time it is not broken. I'm really not sure whether I'm
> running my own Xfree or the Unstable debs---I think it's my own.
>
> But one thing I've noticed is that my XFree86.0.log has a different
> last line from the one you included: mine says
>
> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card".
> where yours says
> > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro".
>
> Which is presumably a result of the following from my XF86Config-4:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Generic Video Card"
> Driver "ati"
> EndSection
>
> Hope this helps
>
> O.
>
>
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