Stefan Kluth wrote: > I have potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 on a 500MHz G4 with an ATI > Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x and it works fine on the console. I boot with > video=ofonly. X doesn't work though, and from following this list that > might be expected. X (as XF68FBDev) does get started by xdm, the screen > turns white 3 times and then X gives up. Is the ATI Rage 128 Pro just not > supported? If there is hope within potato and XF3 I will provide the logs > for debugging.
It may work if you use "current" as mode and depth 8 in XF86Config. Otherwise, you'll have to use aty128fb instead of video=ofonly. > Will I have to go to XF4? Maybe not, but you'll _want_ to ;) > I am not really willing to go all the way to unstable, so I reckon I have > either find XF4 .debs for potato (I tried to search, but no luck) or to get > the sources and compile. If so, is there a recipie somewhere which guides me > through getting and compiling the deb-sources? It should build out of the box with dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot, otherwise ask on the debian-x list. Another option would be to upgrade to testing and either wait for X4 to get there or install it manually. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
