Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:44, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
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> Thus it would appear that while the driver recognizes what M9 is, it
> still does not work.
The driver is too old to handle endianness correctly for the M9; a
working radeonfb should compensate for that with Option "UseFBDev".
> The character devices /dev/fb{1-7} do exist, so something is odd.
'No such device' vs. 'No such file or directory' - error messages tend
to have a meaning here. :)
> Now, the directory /dev/dri is empty. Should there be something in it?
No, the X server creates the nodes on the fly.
> Or is it because of previous failures that the DRI thing did not work,
> and it will go away when the other problem is fixed?
It looks like the radeon kernel module simply can't be loaded. What
happens if you try loading it manually?
> I am not using video=ofonly in yaboot.conf, which I noticed was
> mentioned in archived messages.
Maybe you need a newer kernel, are you still using the one installed
with woody?
> Please forgive me my ignorance about getting X to work.
Nobody knows everything, but all the information you need is out there.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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