[Please CC me, I'm not subsribed. I am trying to follow using the archives]
Am having a lot of trouble getting XFree to work reliably
on a Grey G3 (with ATI rage card):
When running in 8 bit the X server background is all white and the
mouse cursor leaves ghost images around. [It actually looks more like
the screen is b&w instead of 8 bit]
In 32 bit mode the screen stays blank (something resembling an
underline cursor sometimes appears)
I get the following output from Xfbdev
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 2000
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.4.0-test13-pre2 ppc [ELF]
Configured drivers:
FBDev: Server for frame buffer device
(Patchlevel 11): mfb, afb, cfb8, cfb16, cfb32, NCR 77C32BLT (accel), ATI
Mach64 (accel), IMS TwinTurbo (accel), 3Dlabs Permedia 2 (accel)
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
XIE extension module for XFree86 3.3.6
(**) module xie.so successfully loaded from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
(**) XKB: disabled
(**) Mouse: type: IMPS/2, device: /dev/input/mice, buttons: 3
(**) FBDev: Graphics device ID: "Linux Frame Buffer Device"
(**) FBDev: Monitor ID: "Generic Monitor"
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
(**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode
(--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: ATY Mach64
(--) FBDev: Video memory: 6140K @ 0x82800000
(--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 2K @ 0x827ff800
(--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 32
(--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: ATI Mach64GT (3D RAGE)
bpp = 32, depth = 32, BitsPerRGB = 8
(--) FBDev: Initializing accel code
(**) FBDev: Pixmap cache disabled
(**) FBDev: Font cache disabled
(--) FBDev: Using cfb32 driver
Is cfb32 the right driver? If not how do I force it use the proper one?
I also seem unable to use anything other than Mode "default"?
Help! Somebody must have gotten X working on these machines in the past!
Most hits on google are for Xfree4!
Jan
P.S. Is the fact the mouse is now imps2 at /dev/input/mice documented
somewhere. Most docs still go on about adbmouse.
xconfig
Description: Xfree config file
