From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000320100508.5947.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 02:05:08 -0800 (PST) From: Michel "D?nzer" Reply-To: michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch Subject: Re: XFree4 w rage128 To: georges Harrisson Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --- georges Harrisson wrote: > I am sorry to ask a question that must have been answered > in the billions of messages talking from XFree 4, but is it > possible to run it actually with the r128 driver ? Yes. > On my BW G3, when I launch X I get hundred of lines like > : > (W) r128: resolution deleted (XXX x XXX) > (E) r128: no available mode found > No screen found You either haven't specified valid modes for your monitor or the correct horizontal and vertical frequency ranges. > I am running on anthony's aty128fb. Do you use Option "UseFBDev" ? > When I use offb, it goes a step further and crashes with a segmentation > fault. I wouldn't expect that to work anyway... > What is wrong with it? What are the necessary patches for > XF4 to work on PPC? None except the cache flush patch by Kostas Gewrgiou and Kevin Hendricks. Michel ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/