Re: having problem with X on woody with r128
This card worked fine for me under X 3.36, but failed under
Woody's X 4.1, which I find a little puzzling.
I wound up using Branden's somewhat experimental XFree86 4.2
located at:
http://people.debian.org/~branden/
There's a list of mirrors at:
http://raw.no/x4.2/
It's working fine for me now, but I still haven't worked
out all of the apt pinning issues to keep it up to date.
That's high on my to-do list, so someday....
HTH and Good Luck,
Bill
(Continuing top-posting because that's the way this thread
is going.)
On 9/25/02 9:34 AM, "b d" <bobdole20020924@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Bart et all,
>
> Um, I'm sorry, I couldn't find where to disable the
> kernel frame buffer.... I had previously crafted my
> XF86Config file from hand... but I did as you said and
> did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and didn't see
> any mention of kernel frame buffer.... also couldn't
> find it in the kernel compilation configuration. I
> also did a quick google and couldn't find any mention
> of this problem......
>
> I'm not missing anything simple am I?
>
> Any further help appreciated! This is driving me up
> the wall!
>
> Brad
>
> Bart Verweire <bart.verweire@teleatlas.com> wrote in
> message news:<3D917BED.54C37DD0@teleatlas.com>...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had the same problem, and found the following
> solution somewhere on the net
>> :
>> during the X configuration (using dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver ?), debian proposes
>> to use a 'kernel frame buffer' (don't have my debian
> at hand at this moment, so
>> I'm not sure about the terminology). The default
> setting is yes (debian saying
>> that it is safe to do so). In my case, I had to
> disable the kernel frame buffer.
>> And it now works without a problem.
>>
>> hope to help.
>>
>> Bart
>>
>> b wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks:
>>>
>>> I have a question - I have gotten X working with
> woody on a fair number of
>>> machines, but this one confuses me. The video
> card is a 32 MB ATI Rage 128.
>>> Since it was a fairly new workstation, I installed
> RedHat 7.3 as well, and X
>>> worked out of the box - then reinstalled Woody,
> and compared XF86Config
>>> files, and found no substantial differences..... I
> upgraded and recompiled a
>>> 2.4.19 kernel as well with AGP support and DRI for
> the ATI R128 compiled
>>> right into the kernel.
>>>
>>> Someone please help if you have any ideas...... (I
> apologize if there is a
>>> more proper place for this posting...)
>>>
>>> The short description: The error is "no screens
> found"
>>>
>>> following is my XF86Config file, and following
> that (sorry for the length)
>>> is the log output detailing the errors...
>>>
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