This one time, at band camp, Holger Wiechert said: > Hi, > > after a hell of a time trying to get my ATI Rage 128 to work with XFree86 on > Debian (Woody), it's time to get help from the > outside... > I tried the stuff recommended from > dri.sourceforge.net (installing the xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk package). > As I came closer, it still doesn't work. > The current state is the error message in > XFree86.0.log: > (EE) R128(0): [dri] R128DRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. > [dri] r128.o kernel module version is 2.1.6 but version 2.2 or greater is > needed. > > Whatever that means. I compiled the r128.o using a 2.4.18-kernel. Installed > is XFree86 4.2.1. > > What is of version 2.1.6? > So what the hell do I have to do to get that > damn thing to work? > I can live without any 3D stuff. So, if that helps.... > > Thanks in advance, Holger
What exactly is failing? Do you have a functioning Xsession, but no acceleration? No functional Xsession? I have one of those cards, and it works fine here, and has 3D acceleration. Let me know what the probem is, and I'll try to help. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | The reason computer chips are so small is | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | computers don't eat much. | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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