On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:51:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
There's no output in any of the logs that I can see if I try and use the
atyfb. It locks up after it tries to switch to the atyfb. I tested
this with both the 2.2.19 kernel and paulus 2.4.4-pre1 from kernel.xorsis.net
unless there's another way to get this information?
>
> What does lspci -vv say?
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like
> that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
