From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39D0F7EB.C0415571@relog.ch> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:24:27 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Reply-To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rshapiro@bbn.com CC: Michael Schmitz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: xf 4.0.1 + ati driver with rage II/rage pro References: <14798.23332.833379.615321@esb.bbn.com> <14800.62277.193434.173634@esb.bbn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: R Shapiro wrote: > > Michael Schmitz writes: > > > 3. On the same machine, the ati driver I built yesterday hoses linux > > > completely and doesn't leave a core file. > > > > Does the X server complain about PCI resource conflicts when run as X > > --probeonly? Anything about PCI problems in the server log? > > "startx -- -probeonly" also crashes linux when the ati drivers are > selected. > > Here's the log, which ends somewhat abruptly. [...] > (--) PCI: (0:13:0) ATI Mach64 GI rev 92, Mem @ 0x84000000/24, 0x81801000/12, I/O @ 0x0400/8 > (--) PCI: (0:15:0) ATI Mach64 GI rev 92, Mem @ 0x83000000/24, 0x81800000/12, I/O @ 0x0400/8 > (--) PCI: (0:18:0) ATI Mach64 GT rev 154, Mem @ 0x82000000/24, I/O @ 0x0400/8 [...] > (--) ATI(0): VideoRam: 1 kByte (EDO) That's quite little VRAM :) Do you have an atyfb for each head? If so, try also passing the "fbdev" option with the devices for the ati driver. > The final two lines reject the two modes I generated with fbset. Both are > considered ok by the fbdev driver. [...] > (II) ATI(0): Maximum clock: 120.00 MHz > (WW) ATI(0): Mode "1152x870" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) > (WW) ATI(0): Mode "1280x1024" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) Are the modes below 120 MHz? Have you tried uncommenting your mode definitions so that is uses internal modes? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/