Bug#367947: Ultra10 X Problems after dist-upgrade

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Stewart Stremler wrote:
> Not that I am aware of. (Then again, it's been quite some time since
> I last fought with this machine.) There's an xserver-xorg-video-ati
> package
> installed.

Since you have an ATI board and this ATI driver package, why do you use
the VGA driver? :)

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Generic Video Card"
    Driver "vga" <<<< try with "ati" instead
EndSection

> It changes, in that it but it's not better. It complains about the
> DRI module not being loaded instead of complaining about screen 0
> not being DRI capable.

Right, AIGLX won't be enabled, but it is not important.
The possibly bad warnings that remain are:

    ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x2c00400 e: 0x2c004ff correcting
    (WW) VGA(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default

But there is something strange, you have lots of line like:
    (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (insufficient memory
for mode)
followed in the end by:
    (WW) VGA(0): Mode pool is empty
All this could be caused by:
    (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 64 kBytes.
Your ATI board probably has much more memory than that (maybe 8MB). The
ATI driver should detect it fine. If not, we could even hardcode it in
xorg.conf.

Let's see what you get with the ATI driver, the other warnings might be
related to the VGA driver. Try without DRI first.

Brice