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Re: r128 driver still borked in XF4.0.1-9pre10



Michael Flaig wrote:

> > > > > Does XF4 work on your Pismo now ?
> > > >
> > > > No, not the -8 packages. Waiting for new ones...
> > >
> > > Have you downloaded the xfree4 from deb
> > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/powerpc/
> > >
> > > they are now -10 ...
> >
> > Well, I would have if they were still there... The only file in the
> > powerpc directory is currently Packages.gz .
> 
> Strange... I can get them all ...

I just pointed the browser at http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody/powerpc/
again, only Packages.gz, no .debs ...


> > > the bug of -8 packages is fixed but now the packages hang my pismo which > > > is my biggest problem at all.
> >
> > I have the same problem on my Pismo. That is, actually the screen isn't
> > black for me but has an interesting gradient which slowly changes it's
> > color and brightness :) The machine is dead as can be.
> >
> > The strange thing is: The same happens if I take the r128_drv.o from one
> > of my build trees, which work as a whole. So the problem doesn't seem to
> > be just in the driver.
> 
> Yes I will test it with an Kernel2.4 ... perhaps I'll find time to compile
> it this weekend. ...

r128_drv.o is the X driver module. My suspicion is that there is a problem in
another part of X. It is virtually impossible that this is a kernel problem
(I'm using 2.4.0-test11).


Michel


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and The DRI Project



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