On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Todd Mason wrote: > I have been fighting with my laptop trying to get X 4.3.0 working for some time > now and I have about given up, I am hoping someone on this group has some insight. > I had been running Gentoo Linux on my laptop for a while, things were good until > I decided to try to upgrade X 4.2.x to 4.3 once I did that X stopped working. I used > to have to use the Mach64 driver (ati) with my laptop even though the chip is a Rage > 128 mobility chip. In any event, it worked with 4.2, no longer with 4.3. I even > tried going BACK to 4.2 which decided to refuse to work as well. > I recently installed Redhat 9 thinking perhaps the installer/autoconfigurator > would catch something I missed and get it working, that did not work. > Included is my XFree86.0.log file, looking through it shows that X correctly > detects my video chip AND my display on my laptop, but when it tries to find a > usable mode it has a complaint about each and every one. I am not sure what exactly > is wrong. As a temporary fix I have it running on the VESA driver, but if possible I > would really like to get it working with the "ati" or "r128" driver, as the > acceleration is better.
Known 4.3 issue. Fixed in CVS. Possible workaround: Specify virtual resolution. My answers to this getting terser. Soon to be eliminated entirely. Google is your friend... Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
