Bug#436536: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Xorg does not start on a PowerMacintosh 9600/300 with an ATI Mach64 PCI video card
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Damiano Giorgi wrote:
> 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.
Testing xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.193 currently in experimental would be nice
(or 6.7.192 if 193 is not build on powerpc yet).
Brice
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