On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 19:24, John Schmidt wrote: > > I am attempting to get my (old) ATI MACH64GX card working using the ati > driver in X in an old Power Tower Pro 200 (6 slot PCI -- 9500 clone). > > I am currently running kernel 2.2.20 based on the powermac install of woody. > I am running the video card in frame buffer mode with a default depth of 15. > I realize that with my configuration, that 2.2 kernels have issues with the > dual pci bus. I have compiled a 2.4.18 kernel and booted it and it did > recognize the dual bus, and for the first time the X logs showed this but I > had troubles getting the ati driver to work in any mode and the fb driver to > work in 15 bit depth (worked with 8 bit depth).
Why would you want a slower console for no gain? > Using 2.4.18 and X 4.1: > > The ati driver would only recognize the 8 bit depth, but then stopped with > the error: coudn't initialize Linear Aperature. Any other depth would not > even get to the point where the ati driver was starting to initialize things. > Should one of the modules be turned off? Probably not, but the ati driver may not be detecting (something about) your chip correctly; someone recently posted here how he could overcome a similar problem by overriding the reference clock (IIRC). > The frame buffer driver would work with 8 bit depth, but for some reason, the > memory reported in the X logs indicated that I only had 768K instead of the > actual 2048K. Consequently anything higher than 8bit would not work. Is > there any way to specify a command line of argument in BootX for specifiying > the video memory? BootX has nothing to do with X (in spite of its name ;), you can override the amount of video RAM with the VideoRam directive in the XF86Config device section. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
