On Son, 2003-02-09 at 13:48, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Ryan Singer wrote: > > >Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>On Don, 2003-02-06 at 13:14, Ryan Singer wrote: > >> > >>>(EE) R128(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen" > >>>for depth/fbbpp 8/8 > >>> > >>You probably don't want to use depth 8? Add > >> > >> DefaultDepth 24 > >> > >>to the Screen section (or 16 or 15, and make sure there's a matching > >>display subsection). > > > >Ack! Tried that too. Now I get the following in the error log: > > > >[drm] failed to load kernel module "r128" > >(II) R128(0): [drm] drmOpen failed > >(EE) R128(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > >(II) R128(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1024,8191) > >(II) R128(0): Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024,770) > >(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7421 > >(==) R128(0): Backing store disabled > >(==) R128(0): Silken mouse enabled > >(II) R128(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) > > Screen to screen bit blits > > Solid filled rectangles > > 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > > Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion > > Solid Lines > > Dashed Lines > > Scanline Image Writes > > Offscreen Pixmaps > > Setting up tile and stipple cache: > > 32 128x128 slots > > 32 256x256 slots > > 16 512x512 slots > >(II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled > >(II) R128(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1540) > >(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7419 > >(II) R128(0): Direct rendering disabled > > > >The screen flashes w/ some colored lines and boxes, then goes black > >and the breathing-power-button-light on the front blinks until I > >hold cmd-ctrl-alt-del to get back to the shell. > > > >I'm losing hope! > > > I have seen some problems with older iMacs in the past (Mandrake Linux), > especially the Rev types. The problem was some flashing screen, the > solutions to this problem were either: > > 1) Option "composite_sync" "off" (in XF86Config-4)
This doesn't apply because this option only defaulted to true in the atimisc driver for Mach64 chips, and only in 4.2.0. > 2) to rename the driver in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (libi2c.a) to have it > switched off. I don't know what that would achieve, but it's worth a try I guess. Otherwise, you may have to provide more information Ryan. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
