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Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB

Okay, digging through the log, I find:
   (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
   (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP) found
so it is definitely a TB IV.

In the log, I see:
(EE) RADEON(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors above for possible reasons 
           (you may have to look at the server log to see warnings)
   (WW) RADEON(0): fbdevHWInit failed, not using framebuffer device
so this would mean that the frame buffer device is not being used, even though it tried, right? 

The console does not work once X is run.

Sorry, what is "OFfb"?

If the log would be interesting to look at, it is here:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jjamison/XFree86.0.log
It seems that everyone who is running Debian on a TiBook is running sid. Should I be as well? If yes, how do I switch? Pardon my asking, but I have not used Debian before this install this week. 

Thank you,
Johnathon

Michel Dänzer wrote:

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 21:11, Johnathon Jamison wrote:


I do not rightly know which version I have, or how to tell.  I do know
my machine was purchased in Jan 2003, so I would bet it is a IV.  I
noticed a TiBook IV page at http://spacepants.org/hw/tibook/ that also
said to install from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/ .  However, he
was using sid, not woody, and so it was slightly different
(xlibmesa3-gl1-dri-trunk instead of xlibmesa3-dri-trunk). 


It's more than just slightly different; the woody packages may be too
old to work well with an M9, at least without Option "UseFBDev".
Apple System Profiler says my video card name is 'ATI,Xia_A'. The TiBook IV page seems to indicate at the top that the chip set in IV and III are the same. 


That would be wrong, III has M7 while IV has M9.



I also fiddled with the Option "UseFBDev" "true" line which the
IV page talked about, but it did not seem to make a difference.



Have you checked the log to see whether it's actually used? It should
make a difference if radeonfb works correctly in console. Your
description sounds like you're still running OFfb.
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