Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!
>>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card".
>>> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected!
>>
>> This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the
>> chip, but...
>>
>>> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x82000000 e: 0x82ffffff correcting
>>
>> ... I rather suspect this is the problem. Try a 2.4 kernel, or if you
>> use BootX, try using the startup extension instead of the app, or try a
>> different bootloader if appropriate.
>
> The Wallstreet can't use quik so you'll have to patch the PCI resource
> allocation (broken by MockOS) on kernel startup. There's a patch against
> vintage 2.2 and 2.4 kernels floating around (from early XFree 4 prerelease
> days; the same happened initially on my Lombard) that adds code to atyfb
> for this very purpose. BenH and Geert should have it in their archives,
> and I can dig up a copy if needs be. (Hint: the IO and memory regions are
> probably initialized to overlap by MacOS, and XFree deactivates the memory
> aperture).
>
> Michael
Thanks Michael and Michel for your advise.
Because I am a newbee and understand that recompiling the 2.2.20 kernel
would involve a lot of effort and time, I would like to know if the original
kernel in use can work with my Wallstreet by just making some adjustments in
the XF86Config-4 file or not.
If it is hopeless to follow this way, I will have to patch and compile and
whatever a new Kernel (v.2.4.10 ?). At the moment I have still no idea how
to do that. I think I will have to read a lot of HOWTO's and spend a lot of
precious time with this matter.
Michaels Hint uses a lot of techie expressions I never have heard of before,
but they sound great.
Why hasn't anybody made a precompiled binary? I will never understand this
aspect of Debian.
Befu
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