Bug#233001: xserver-xfree86: [tseng] ET4000/W32p only works with vesa or vga
Branden,
Please see comments below.
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:50:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> tag 233001 + upstream
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:07:46PM +1000, Ian Maclaine-cross wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:20:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:32:25PM +1100, Ian Maclaine-cross wrote:
> > > > Xfree86 3.3.6 worked with my Tseng ET4000/W32p graphics card but
> > > > 4.2 does not except with a low resolution vesa or vga mode.
> > >
> > > Did you *try* the "tseng" driver instead?
> >
> > Yes indeed and it did nothing.
>
> Hrmph.
>
> You appear to have a motherboard that the PCI bus handling code in
> XFree86 4.3.0 doesn't deal with well; a lot of "phantom" buses show up,
> and this *may* be confusing the X server into not knowing where to find
> your video card.
My mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-5AA and CPU is AMD-K6-3/450.
/proc/pci has the video card OK:
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Tseng Labs Inc ET4000/W32p rev C (rev 0).
IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xef000000 [0xefffffff].
Works OK with xfree86 3.3.6.
> The good news is, I have backported what claims to be a fix for this
> problem from XFree86 CVS to Debian's SVN repository for our XFree86
> packages, and if you can build and test packages from the "SVN trunk",
> you will be in a position to confirm whether this bad PCI bus handling
> is the problem, or if something else is going wrong as well.
>
> Are you in a position to build and test xfree86 packages? Instructions
> are at:
>
> http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/HACKING.txt
>
> See the section "Building the package". Please be sure to use revision
> 1373 or later of the trunk.
I have not built xfree86 before. I read your instructions and I think
I should be able to follow them sometime in June.
> I have packages prepared, but unfortunately they are for PowerPC only.
>
> --
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> Debian GNU/Linux | trend lines before you have data
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Regards,
Ian Maclaine-cross <i.maclaine-cross@unsw.edu.au>
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