Re: Problems with vesa X driver
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:20:03 -0400 (EDT), Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:47:01 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Due to a bug in the MACH64 driver (see Debian bug report 726585 for details),
>> I am temporarily using the VESA X driver in Debian jessie to get graphical
>> support to work on my machine. I am experiencing three problems with it.
>
> From Bug #726585:
>>
>> After upgrade of package xserver-xorg-video-mach64 from version 6.9.1-2
>> (which was working for me) to version 6.9.4-1+b1, I receive the
>> following error during X initialization (extracted
>> from /var/log/Xorg.0.log):
>
> If previous version was working then revert to it. I don't see how VESA
> can be better solution.
I tried that. But the previous version of the driver has a dependency on
xserver-xorg-video-abi-12, which is a virtual package not currently provided
by any current package. The last package to provide it was the old version
of xserver-xorg-core. Thus, a downgrade of xserver-xorg-core would be
required too, and that in turn would require a downgrade of just about the
entire suite of X-related packages. It's not worth doing.
For the moment, the VESA driver is my only solution, and not a very good
one. I'm considering trying to build the 3D support module for the MACH64
driver, in hopes that it will coax the MACH64 driver into working again.
I have been content with 2D support up to now. I've heard that the 3D
support module for this chipset has stability issues. But with the VESA
driver, I don't even get 2D support, plus the issues mentioned in the
original post. It seems like building the 3D support module is worth a try.
--
.''`. Stephen Powell
: :' :
`. `'`
`-
Reply to: