On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andy Wettstein wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a blue g3 that has an xclaimvrpro reported like
> this from the kernel:
> Using unsupported 1024x768 ATY,XCLAIMVRPro at 81000000, depth=8,pitch=1024
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I had to specify video=ofonly to get the thing to even boot. Now when
> I'm trying to set up X windows the best I can do is 8 bit color using
> the framebuffer. I tried to use the ati driver, and it looks like it
> works, my windowmanager starts and all (i can tell by using ssh),
> but all I get is a black screen.
What is the output from atyfb when not specifying video=ofonly? If all you get
is a black screen, look in the logfiles.
What does lspci -vv say?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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