Michel D�nzer wrote: > "M.Stolte" wrote: > > > Does debian ppc have X fb-dev support only, or is there another way to use > > my ati something 64 card? > > The X 3.3.6 fbdev server contains acceleration for mach64. Or if you really > want to, you can manually install Xpmac. > > > If it doesn't, how do i configure fb-dev to show something instead of the > > white screen with yellow text and a mousepointer which looks like the X one? > > What depth are you trying in?
The accelerated X server for atyfb is quite buggy on some cards- or rather, it's atyfb itself, depending on how you look at it. The problems persist to the 2.4 kernel. I have a Mach64 VT, which has problems like you describe- white screen with some black text and the X cursor for 1164x870x8, but 1164x864x8 is mostly usable. To get a fully-usable, but molasses-slow, server, insert the line: Option "no_accel" into the Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. I think the problem is that there are too many Mach64 variants for the maintainer to support fully, and they're not quite well-enough documented by ATI (and I haven't been quite as helpful a tester/codeveloper as I could be- Geert gave me some tools, but I've yet to really use them :-). For more details, including info on how you can help, see the fbdev mailing list thread starting at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02291.html Zeen, -Adam P.
