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Re: iMac G3 r128 - failed to load module "r128"



Hello!

On 5/23/20 9:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/23/20 9:48 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>> I installed Debian Sid on an old iMac G3 500 with an ATI Rage 128 card. I cannot
>> get X working. In the /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that r128 module fails to load.
>> I can not find the xserver-org-video-r128 package. Can someone shed a light ?
> 
> The driver was removed from the package repository [1], I will re-add them soonish.

Good news on this issue: Adrian Bunk has kindly stepped up and is working on re-adding
the legacy driver packages to the Debian archive [1]. So users will be able to use
X on the affected machines in the near future again.

If anyone knows about some particular fixes that are required for the drivers - such
as for the eMac - it would be nice if we could assemble a list of these fixes so they
can be integrated into the Debian packages later. The fixes should, of course, get
upstreamed whereever possible.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/02/msg00055.html

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