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Bug#436536: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Xorg does not start on a PowerMacintosh 9600/300 with an ATI Mach64 PCI video card



On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:04:34AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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).

Ping?

Did you try the new xserver-xorg-video-ati from experimental
(currently 1:6.7.195-2) ?

Brice




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