last (post-install XFree86) question ...

[vinai <vinai_at_@mcw.edu>]

Hey Folks,

Thanks to Carlos and Chris, I got through most of my install of Debian
3.0 ...  I think I have everything working, except for X.

I have a Mach64 card, and am running a 2.4.18 kernel.  Regardless of
the options I specify to the kernel at boot time, or to the program that
configures X, I cannot get an accelerated environment.  The kernel will
boot ONLY with the "No video driver" box checked.  If I try to pass
"video=atyfb" or "video=fbdev", the kernel halts after the arch: exit
line.

The output of lspci gives:

00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [
VGA])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0000
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR
- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort-
 >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 24
        Region 0: Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 0400 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at 80800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at 80820000 [disabled] [size=128K]

Any pointers as to how I can get my kernel to play nice with my video
card so I can have accelerated X ?

Again - thanks to everyone that helped me get through the installation.

ciao
vinai