Re: X weirdness

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 00:04, Koos van den Hout wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Try atyfb instead of OFfb.

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

Can you put them up somewhere?

> 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.

Seems it doesn't recognize your particular chip, maybe using the ChipID
directive to override detection could help.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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