Phil Fraering wrote: > Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I tried out TigerT's suggestion of > enabling the "UseFB" option. It still didn't work, but the failure > mode was a lot interesting: there were a bunch of almost-horizontal > diagonal stripes on the screen. (Unfortunately, the stripes weren't > orange and black, or the synchronicity would be complete). > > Also, control-alt-delete caused xwindows to terminate. That didn't > happen in earlier versions. > > So, at least the crashes are interesting, and I don't have to reboot, > if I use the "UseFB" option. It's progress, IMHO.
Absolutely, as this means it doesn't crash, just the display isn't right. Make sure you use a mode which has the full panel resolution (800x600 I assume) as aty128fb can't stretch the display yet. Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
