On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] D�nzer wrote: > Stefan Kluth wrote: > > > I have potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 on a 500MHz G4 with an ATI > > Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x and it works fine on the console. I boot with > > video=ofonly. X doesn't work though, and from following this list that > > might be expected. X (as XF68FBDev) does get started by xdm, the screen > > turns white 3 times and then X gives up. Is the ATI Rage 128 Pro just not > > supported? If there is hope within potato and XF3 I will provide the logs > > for debugging. > > It may work if you use "current" as mode and depth 8 in XF86Config. Otherwise, > you'll have to use aty128fb instead of video=ofonly. I'll try that tommorrow. Er, ahem, I vaguely remember that there is some dark art involved in the syntax of the kernel argument, passing the depth and other things, no? > > > Will I have to go to XF4? > > Maybe not, but you'll _want_ to ;) > > > I am not really willing to go all the way to unstable, so I reckon I have > > either find XF4 .debs for potato (I tried to search, but no luck) or to get > > the sources and compile. If so, is there a recipie somewhere which guides me > > through getting and compiling the deb-sources? > > It should build out of the box with dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot, otherwise > ask on the debian-x list. But which package, X in debian has quite a few (ok I am bit dumb, I just don't know X very well) > > Another option would be to upgrade to testing and either wait for X4 to get > there or install it manually. I considered that, but found that XF4 wasn't there ... I would like to get our Mac going soon. Thanks for your help! Stefan
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