Re: mach64 module missing
The mach64 module wasn't found so X can't run on this machine that one
was fatal. I did tasksel and selected desktop environment so as to
have a few things for X to run but not quite enough things apparently.
If you're talking about a mach64 video card, then you should be able to
run X using the card without any trouble.
Getting direct rendering working is tricky, however. Apparently, due to
some security concerns, the driver for direct rendering for the Mach64
Rage Pro card is not included. It can be obtained at
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
(the general site is http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download) The
driver comes with an install script that is pretty easy. I use Etch,
with xorg.
There was a way to get direct rendering to work with Sarge using xfree86
too, that being to add
deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
to your sources.list, and then install drm-trunk-module-src to your
machine. I don't know if these repositories are still in operation or
not, though.
A site with information is at
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting
Good luck.
Mark
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