X starts, but it displays strange things
> Charles Brunet wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was finally able to install XFree-4.0.2 on my indigo iBook. X starts, but
>> I'm not able to see anything, except the mouse cursor and a gray screen with
>> horizontals lines, slightly diagonals, as if the pixels sent to the screen
>> weren't the same depth as the screen itself. When I push the mouse button, I
>> see turquoise lines on the screen.
>>
>> I use the XF86Config file I found on hadess.net (merci Bastien). The r128
>> driver is loaded. Resolution is 800x600. Everything in the log file seems ok
>> to me. I tried different screen depths without success.
>>
>> Could somebody please helps me?
>
> Make sure that you use the right kernel arguments, like:
> video=aty128fb:vmode:10:depth:8:
>
> XFree doesn't work on my iBook without it (if only I knew why, I'd try
> to fix it...), also give a try at uncommenting the UseFBDev option in
> the Driver section, as Michel pointed out that it was a known bug with
> X4.0.2
The video=aty128fb... is there
UseFBDev also is there. When I remove it, the screen become black with the
backlight at its maximum intensity and I must hard restart my machine.
I also have a window manager installed. It's twm. I even can quit X with the
mouse menu, but I cant see it... I just see some strange lines in the
screen, as I said.
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\ Charles Brunet <brunet01@gel.ulaval.ca>
\ Étudiant, génie informatique, Université Laval
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