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X weirdness



I installed woody on a powerbook/G3 laptop (now booting ;) and the next
thing I'd really like to have working is X.

The funny thing is that X starts and xterms run, but I don't see anything.
Switching back to a text console and then to vc7 (where X lives) gives the
funny effect that the cursor gets disabled but I keep seeing the text from
the vc I thought I left.

I'm using 
ii  xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-16       the XFree86 X server

configured is the FBdev device hopefully talking to the FBdev driver in the
kernel.

What I keep seeing on the console (does not show up in dmesg or the X log
though) is:

ioctl FBIOPUTCMAP: Function not implemented

Which I see as a slight hint.. but what to do ?

(logfile and configfile available, but I didn't want to flood those right
away)

lspci gives:
00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT-G 215LG
(rev 80) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
        Memory at 82000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        I/O ports at 0400 [disabled]
        Memory at 82fff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Changing to the ati driver with usefbdev true gives less result..

(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK
(PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
        ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
        ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
        ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
(II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "ATI 3d rage".
(WW) ATI:  PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected!
(EE) No devices detected.


                                       Koos

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