On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> Since I've installed Mdk-8.2, I run XFree4 with the fbdev driver,
> because I've got a black screen with the ati driver.
>
> I'm trying now to have this latter work.
>
> I've made of diff of two /var/log/XFree86.0.log files, one with fbdev
> driver, the other with the ati one.
> What seems signicative to me is a warning in the ati one (more than a
> bunch of unused modelines) :
> > (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer.
>
> and the last line of the ati log file :
>
> > (II) ATI(0): Shutting down Xvideo subsystems
These messages don't really tell anything. I get the first one for sure,
the second one I've seen as well but it's not currently in my log.
The Xvideo message does mean you're using the "new" GATOS driver; did you
try the other ati driver named "ati_old"? I think it should be in the
XFree86-server package as well. (it's in XFree86-4.2.0-10 on i586 at
least, can't find the ppc package on rpmfind)
> I usually boot linux with the accelerated ati console driver (with a
> kernel argument "video = atyfb:accel" ...). I've tried to boot with the
> "novideo" option in BootX (oldworld...). Then my consoles aren't
> accelerated, but I still have the same warning in XFree86.log...
I don't use the accel option; never tried actually. My kernel video
setting is "video=atyfb:vmode:17,cmode:16" (1024x768 @ 16bit probably).
Christiaan
