Hi out there,
I tried, but it seems I lack the experience needed to solve this. I hope
some kind soul on the list can help me out.
Today I've installed potato on a Compaq Armada M300, which was easy
enough to do. After I finished the base install without X I did some of
the necessary stuff, like closing all unwanted LISTENing ports and doing
the apt-get update & upgrade routine. So far no problem. But I like the
eye-candy X can give me, so I installed X, which resulted in a very
weird (almost drug-induced-like) image on VT7. So I read up on the topic
and found some messages on the net suggesting that you should upgrade to
XFree86 4 to get it working propperly.
Well, since cpbotha made a nice set of debs available I just did that
and afterwards ran xf86cfg. However that didn't get me far (no mouse and
it segfaults when you actually try to configure a device). So I tried a
text-mode configuration with xf86config, choosing ATI Rage 128 as the
driver (the ATI Rage LT Pro is not listed and someone suggested this was
the closest relative). Upon finishing that I ran startx and as a reward
got an error message stating there were "no screens found". I tried to
find more information about this problem, but wasn't sucessful.
>From /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(--) PCI:*(0:5:0) ATI Mach64 LI rev 220, Mem @ 0x40000000/24,
0x41080000/12, I/O @ 0x3000/8
So the card was sucessfully probed. The last lines in the log say:
(II) APM: driver for the Alliance chipsets: AP6422, AT24, AT3D
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:05:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
There are no other errors or warnings, just (II) lines.
That's about all leads I have. Can someone on the list point me in the
right direction? I'd appreciate your help.
Grx HdV
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J.A. de Vries aka HdV
Delft University of Technology
Computing Centre
Email: J.A.deVries@DTO.TUDelft.NL
Email: HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL
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