begin quoting Brice Goglin as of Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:12:07AM +0100: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Not that I am aware of. (Then again, it's been quite some time since > > I last fought with this machine.) There's an xserver-xorg-video-ati > > package > > installed. > > Since you have an ATI board and this ATI driver package, why do you use > the VGA driver? :)
Erm... because I just want the bare minimum working, so I haven't played around with the options much. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "vga" <<<< try with "ati" instead > EndSection Done! > > It changes, in that it but it's not better. It complains about the > > DRI module not being loaded instead of complaining about screen 0 > > not being DRI capable. > > Right, AIGLX won't be enabled, but it is not important. > The possibly bad warnings that remain are: > > ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x2c00400 e: 0x2c004ff correcting > (WW) VGA(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default Well, the Invalid IO Allocation warning is still there. :-/ > But there is something strange, you have lots of line like: > (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (insufficient memory > for mode) > followed in the end by: > (WW) VGA(0): Mode pool is empty > All this could be caused by: > (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 64 kBytes. > Your ATI board probably has much more memory than that (maybe 8MB). The > ATI driver should detect it fine. If not, we could even hardcode it in > xorg.conf. Hm. The dmesg output says it has "4M SGRAM", if I read the output correctly. ( http://www.stremler.net/temp/Debian/03/save-dmesg ) > Let's see what you get with the ATI driver, the other warnings might be > related to the VGA driver. Try without DRI first. Okay. I now get a new and different behavior: an all black screen. I commented out the 1600x1280 resolutions ('cuz it's an older CRT that might not handle it, I guessed), and no change. Oh, and it beeps at me -- I can't alt-Fn or control-alt-Fn to another virtual desktop. Output and config file can be found at http://www.stremler.net/temp/Debian/04/ I added the (filtered) output of ps to show my processes and those processes running with "x" in the name. -- Stewart Stremler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
