Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will take? Would it be possible to build and install only the ati driver, and leave the rest as-is?
--peter On Sun, 13 May 2001, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > I've put up mine at http://home.uchicago.edu/~obmontoy/XF86Config-4 > > Getting XFree4 running on my Wallstreet was non-trivial. I originally > got it working in LinuxPPC 2000, compiling my own from ajoshi's > sources (search the linuxppc-user archives at > http://lists.linuxppc.org/lists/linuxppc-user if you want); when I > switched to Debian Unstable I couldn't get it working, so I just > copied my whole /usr/X11R6 directory to my new /usr. A recent apt-get > upgrade broke it again, but luckily I still had my old tarball and I > got it going again right away. The interesting thing is that I've > done another apt-get upgrade this week, and I think I got new XFree > debs, but this time it is not broken. I'm really not sure whether I'm > running my own Xfree or the Unstable debs---I think it's my own. > > But one thing I've noticed is that my XFree86.0.log has a different > last line from the one you included: mine says > > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > where yours says > > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro". > > Which is presumably a result of the following from my XF86Config-4: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "ati" > EndSection > > Hope this helps > > O. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >