On Die, 2003-03-18 at 16:34, befu wrote: > >> Section "Device" > >> Identifier "ATI Rage" > >> Driver "r128" > > > > Your chip isn't a Rage128, try Driver "ati". The log in your bug report > > seemed to show that though. > > > >> BusID "PCI:0:17:0" > >> VideoRam 8000 > > > > Overriding the amount of video RAM shouldn't be necessary and can be > > harmful under some circumstances. 8000 most definitely isn't correct. > > > >> Option "UseFBDev" "true" > >> EndSection > > I tried the old setup with "ati" as the Driver and no VideoRam, but as > before it didn't work either. > > Then I tried out every driver of the 12 suggested in the list: > > None of them worked. The "fbdev"-driver even froze the system during a never > ending beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. The only driver that looked promising was the > "vga"-driver (but only for 16 bpp colours!).
I didn't think the vga driver supported depths higher than 8... I doubt it works anyway, it relies on legacy VGA stuff that probably isn't there. Your only real choices are ati or fbdev. > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the chip, but... > (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x82000000 e: 0x82ffffff correcting ... I rather suspect this is the problem. Try a 2.4 kernel, or if you use BootX, try using the startup extension instead of the app, or try a different bootloader if appropriate. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
