Quoting Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can you show us your /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Yes i can: XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 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) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-powerpc-smp ppc [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Sep 7 14:40:33 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" (**) XKB: model: "macintosh" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 106b,0001 card 0000,0000 rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 106b,0002 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class ff,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: "scanpci" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) UnloadModule: "scanpci" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 00x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 00x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 00x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 00xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) MX[B] [2] -1 00x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [3] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 00xf3000000 - 0xf3ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]E (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 00xf3000000 - 0xf3ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]E (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 00xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) MX[B] [2] -1 00x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [3] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 00xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) MX[B] [2] -1 00xf3000000 - 0xf3ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]E [3] -1 00x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [4] -1 00x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "record" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: "speedo" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Speedo (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "xie" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension XIE (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.o (II) Module fbdev: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.2 (II) FBDev: driver for framebuffer: fbdev, afb (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw" (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.0.2 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) FBDev(0): using default device (II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode (**) FBDev(0): Depth 8, (--) framebuffer bpp 8 (==) FBDev(0): Default visual is PseudoColor (==) FBDev(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) FBDev(0): Hardware: platinum (vidmem: 1024k) (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device... (II) FBDev(0): mode "800x600" ok (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against monitor... (--) FBDev(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 640) (**) FBDev(0): Built-in mode "current": 30.0 MHz, 34.7 kHz, 66.1 Hz (II) FBDev(0): Modeline "current" 30.00 640 720 784 864 480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync -csync (++) FBDev(0): DPI set to (100, 100) (II) Loading sub module "fb" (II) LoadModule: "fb" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 (**) FBDev(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" (II) Loading sub module "shadow" (II) LoadModule: "shadow" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a (II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 (==) FBDev(0): Backing store disabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) FBDev(0): DPMS enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3 (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (==) Generic Mouse: Buttons: 3 (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Generic Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) and i will show you my kernel messages too... device tree used 27260 bytes Total memory = 40MB; using 256kB for hash table (at c02c0000) Linux version 2.2.20-pmac ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thu Mar 21 17:08:23 EST 2002 PCI bus 0 controlled by bandit at f2000000 Cache coherency enabled for bandit/PSX at f2000000 pmac nvram is core99: 0 System has 32 possible interrupts GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -240 minutes, DST: on Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 89.49 BogoMIPS Memory: 37528k available (1716k kernel code, 1532k data, 184k init) [c0000000,c2800000] Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware adb devices: [2]: 2 2 [3]: 3 1 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 MacOS display is /platinum Total VRAM = 1MB 0001 Monitor sense value = 0x62b, using video mode 6 and color mode 1. Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: platinum frame buffer device input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1 Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI. input1: ADB HID on ID 2:2.02 ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 2 input2: ADB HID on ID 3:3.01 PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0 tty00 at 0xf3013020 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC, port = modem tty01 at 0xf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC, port = printer pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 fd0: SWIM3 floppy controller md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi0 : 53C94 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL540S Rev: 1Q09 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL1280S Rev: 630C Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-8005A Rev: 4.0i Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 3 SCSI generics 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1065235 [520 MB] [0.5 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2503872 [1222 MB] [1.2 GB] eth0: MACE at 00:05:02:a0:42:74, chip revision 9.64 3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub event0: Event device for input2 event1: Event device for input1 event2: Event device for input0 usb.c: registered new driver hid keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input1 mouse0: PS/2 mouse device for input2 mouse1: PS/2 mouse device for input0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usb.c: registered new driver wacom VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k init 28k prep Adding Swap: 158616k swap-space (priority -1) DMA sound driver installed, using 4 buffers of 32k. I`ve tried "video=platinum:vmode:10,cmode:0"(800x600-60Mhz 8 colors) with no change at all i can see in /proc/cmdline the argument but the framebuffer doesn`t react at all. X still use the 640x480-66Mhz default. > > Can i use a pc ati mach64 in a powermac? I gess not, because of > the pci bus speed diff. (33/45Mhz) and the bios of the card... > > PCI buses on Macs _always_ run at 33 MHz (or 666 MHz.. but that was > oneor two generations later :-) . Your 45 MHz is the CPU bus. > > Making a Mach64 work in a 7200 can be done. Shouldn't be too hard.... > What does it mean? Can i plug the card directly or should i do something else first like flashing the bios? I`m new to the powermac hardware... Thanks a million... Charles :^)