Dear Michel! Thank you for your help. The result of "lspci | grep VGA" is as follows:
00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies ... I do use atyfb for console, imposed by BootX. I know nothing about the ati driver. Sergio [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > I am trying to configure XF4 for Lombard. > > The distribution is the latest from Debian, > > where I added the fbdv v4.0.1 of the LinuxPPC > > distribution (Debian still has the old version). > > You can find my XF86Config and the resulting > > log at the following address: > > > > http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~sb/XF4 > > Thanks for providing the necessary information. > > > > The PCIBUS is set to 0:16:0, so to allow reading > > the log. It should be set to 0:17:0, but if I > > do so, the system crashes. > > According to your log, 0:17:0 should be correct. And it should crash for the > wrong value actually. What does 'lspci | grep VGA' give? > > Hmm, at least 4.0.1f works for me. Do you use atyfb for console? Have you > tried the ati driver (caution, this will most definitely require Michael's > kernel patch)? > > > Michel > > > -- > Earthling Michel D_nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast > Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project >
