On 08/ago/07, at 08:53, Brice Goglin wrote:
Could you try xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.193-1 currently in experimental? It is a very recent snapshot of the upstream git repository. But, you'll have to upgrade xserver-xorg-core and several libraries to testing/Lenny.
After a deadly struggle I somehow managed to get xserver-xorg-video- ati 1:6.6.193-1 installed, but it didn't help: the X server gives the very same errors (log files available, but I'm sure they are more or less the same).
It is worth noting that I am not able to get millions of colors in Mac OS 8.6 either (but the other color depths work).
One final note. I'm using Ben Herrenschmidt's Mac OS utility BootX to boot Linux on this machine. If I select the "No Video Driver" option in BootX (which is equivalent to passing "video=ofonly", i.e. using Open Firmware video settings) I get 1152x870 on the Linux console. If I don't use that option, I get something like 640x480 on the console. However, this in no way affects the behavior of the X server, it does not work either way. Maybe this issue is unrelated, but I thought that reporting it couldn't hurt.
Please let me know if there are any other tests you want me to perform. Thanks, Damiano