Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 01:40, Ron Farrer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Tdfxfb doesn't support resource management yet, so either compile a kernel > > without offb, or say video=offb:off. > > Is there some trick to adding stuff in the args box in BootX? Everything > I

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-18 Thread Ron Farrer
Geert Uytterhoeven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tdfxfb doesn't support resource management yet, so either compile a kernel > without offb, or say video=offb:off. Is there some trick to adding stuff in the args box in BootX? Everything I put in the extra args box seems to get ignored by the kernel

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Arlie Glenn Capps wrote: > >You're probably running OFfb, which can't even know what the real mode > >is, let alone change it. You need to get tdfxfb going. > > Yes, when I "cat /proc/fb" it says something like "OFfb Voodoo3" (I'm not > using > that computer right now, but so

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-17 Thread Arlie Glenn Capps
>You're probably running OFfb, which can't even know what the real mode >is, let alone change it. You need to get tdfxfb going. > > Yes, when I "cat /proc/fb" it says something like "OFfb Voodoo3" (I'm not using that computer right now, but something like that). Anyway, when I recompiled the ker

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 17:49, Arlie Glenn Capps wrote: > > http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get some > > information about voodoo3 and linux... > > I am trying to follow the procedure on this page, but I haven't been able to > get > fbset to work properly: when

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-17 Thread Arlie Glenn Capps
Hello, I am one of the several trying unsuccessfully to use the accelerated driver for Voodoo3 video cards. I have a 6500, booting out of BootX, running a 2.4.16 kernel that I recompiled to have Voodoo framebuffer support. > http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-16 Thread Russell Hires
http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get some information about voodoo3 and linux... Russell On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:59 am, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 01:19, Ron Farrer wrote: > > I've been trying to get X working on my PM9600 + G4 upgrade

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 01:19, Ron Farrer wrote: > > I've been trying to get X working on my PM9600 + G4 upgrade + voodoo3 > 3000 without much sucess. While I'm no expert (far from it) it looks to > me like the xserver is segfaulting. This analysis is correct, but unfortunately too generic. :) >