Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel
Stefan Kluth wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
>
> > Stefan Kluth wrote:
> >
> > > I have potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 on a 500MHz G4 with an ATI
> > > Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x and it works fine on the console. I boot with
> > > video=ofonly. X doesn't work though, and from following this list that
> > > might be expected. X (as XF68FBDev) does get started by xdm, the screen
> > > turns white 3 times and then X gives up. Is the ATI Rage 128 Pro just
> > > not supported? If there is hope within potato and XF3 I will provide the
> > > logs for debugging.
> >
> > It may work if you use "current" as mode and depth 8 in XF86Config.
> > Otherwise, you'll have to use aty128fb instead of video=ofonly.
> I'll try that tommorrow. Er, ahem, I vaguely remember that there is some
> dark art involved in the syntax of the kernel argument, passing the depth
> and other things, no?
append="video=aty128fb:" works for me with yaboot.
> > > I am not really willing to go all the way to unstable, so I reckon I
> > > have either find XF4 .debs for potato (I tried to search, but no luck)
> > > or to get the sources and compile. If so, is there a recipie somewhere
> > > which guides me through getting and compiling the deb-sources?
> >
> > It should build out of the box with dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot,
> > otherwise ask on the debian-x list.
> But which package, X in debian has quite a few (ok I am bit dumb, I just
> don't know X very well)
All the basic X packages are built from the xfree86 source package.
> > Another option would be to upgrade to testing and either wait for X4 to
> > get there or install it manually.
> I considered that, but found that XF4 wasn't there ...
Where did you look?
Michel
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