Linear aperture not available (again)

2004-12-12 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
My original message: xdm fails to start up, giving the error "Linear aperture not available" What is the significance of this message? Well, when I got the message about bad blocks, I did a low-level reformatting, mapping out bad blocks. Then I reinstalled Debian, doing a bad blo

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 9, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 -0500, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: xdm fails to start up, giving the error "Linear aperture not available" What is the significance of this message? Weird ... using the X mach64 driver right ?

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 -0500, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: > > xdm fails to start up, giving the error "Linear aperture not available" > > What is the significance of this message? > > Weird ... using the X mach64 driver right ? The linear aperture should

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 -0500, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: > xdm fails to start up, giving the error "Linear aperture not available" > What is the significance of this message? Weird ... using the X mach64 driver right ? The linear aperture should be perfectly available on PCI ...

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Meelis Roos
XFree supports only 8-bit color depth on this one IIRC. Try using depth 8 and see if it helps. I did! At least that was what I specified in the setup! Umm, no idea then :( -- Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 8, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: DRKPD> ATY, mach 64 DRKPD> ATY,88800GX-F XFree supports only 8-bit color depth on this one IIRC. Try using depth 8 and see if it helps. I did! At least that was what I specified in the setup! Dan Killoran

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Meelis Roos
DRKPD> ATY, mach 64 DRKPD> ATY,88800GX-F XFree supports only 8-bit color depth on this one IIRC. Try using depth 8 and see if it helps. -- Meelis Roos

Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
xdm fails to start up, giving the error "Linear aperture not available" What is the significance of this message? TIA, Dan Killoran Hardware: Macintosh 9500 120 MHz ("Old World") Apple display card, which is identified as ATY, mach 64 ATY,88800GX-F Software: debian