From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:11:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:11:32 -0500 Received: from smtp-out1.kaptech.com ([62.106.132.133]:54802 "HELO smtp-out.kaptech.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:11:19 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2.4011 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:09:37 +0100 Subject: Re: aty128fb weirdness From: Chris Boot To: , Linux Kernel Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200201160817.g0G8HYE10520@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org on 16/1/2002 13:17, Denis Vlasenko at vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua wrote: > On 15 January 2002 17:06, Chris Boot wrote: >> I only just decided to reinstall Linux on my Apple iMac DV SE/500 with an >> ATI Rage Pro 128. Last time I used Linux on this machine was when kernel >> 2.4.2 was the latest. Now, when I try to use the native kernel driver for >> my graphics card, all I get is a black screen. I can type blindly into the >> console or login through the network. I double-checked all my kernel >> arguments and didn't find any mistake whatsoever, and enabled the debug >> code in the aty128fb driver, all to no avail. I also tried several >> kernels, ranging from the one included with my distro (a patched 2.4.10), >> 2.4.16, 2.4.17, and 2.4.18-pre3. > > You forgot to say which of them worked. When I last used it it was 2.4.3 or something back then. > Can't help you directly, but if nobody will answer, you can pinpoint at which > kernel version exactly it broke. Don't forget to recompile them with same > working .config from 2.4.2 (minus inevitable changes due to 'make oldconfig') > if you will decide to go hunting the bug :-) I stopped using Linux for a while and decided to install it over again and found the video non-working (2.4.10), then I decided to upgrade and had the same symptoms. I had just recompiled a whole load of old kernels to see under which it broke when all of a sudden I came across a web page stating that acceleration didn't work on Rage 128 Pro chipsets, exactly what I have. So I tried adding the "noaccel" kernel parameter (which I didn't used to have to add) and it now works without a hitch under 2.4.18-pre3. Go figure. Thanks anyway, -- Chris Boot bootc@mac.com "The keyboard is missing - Press any key to continue."