From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:49:30 +0100 Subject: Re: Video acceleration on IMSTT with bk (and Ben's) 2.4.7-pre6 kernel From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Simon Piette , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <20010720104923.458D3DBA98@atlas.valhalla.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I wrote: >> I just compiled 2.4.7pre6 from Ben's tree, and another one from bk, with >> the same results. It compiled without any problems, but I can't have >> accelerated video. I use "video=imsttfb:vmode:17,cmode:16 video=ofonly" >> as kernel args to have a working unaccelerated video. Without ofonly, I >> get some blue dots forming a very distortioned screen of what should be >> there (linux logo and kernel verbosity). Without the imsttfb part, it >> won't work after the initial boot screen: it stops after > [snip] > > BK 2.4.7-pre6: > > OK. It comes up for me 9600/233 with video acceleration and runs "single". > > However, it won't start the X-server the error is something like: > > _X11TransConnectUNIX??? errno = 111 This is because I was being a dumb-bunny ... and had forgotten that I no longer use Xpmac compat on my build system (but still use Xpmac on the IMSTT -- anyone know if XF-4.1 is OK on IMSTT?) It's all OK now (as of a build of 2.4.7-pre8 this morning). > Other symptom is that the splash screen #cpus penguin is missing it's > background. this symptom remains (as does missing graphics on the redhat logo etc. on the KDE2 login splash screen). ciao, Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/