Stefan Kluth wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > 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. > I'll try that tommorrow. Er, ahem, I vaguely remember that there is some > dark art involved in the syntax of the kernel argument, passing the depth > and other things, no?
append="video=aty128fb:" works for me with yaboot. > > > 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. > But which package, X in debian has quite a few (ok I am bit dumb, I just > don't know X very well) All the basic X packages are built from the xfree86 source package. > > Another option would be to upgrade to testing and either wait for X4 to > > get there or install it manually. > I considered that, but found that XF4 wasn't there ... Where did you look? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
