On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:47:40PM -0400, Sean Callanan wrote: > Dear mailing list: > > I have a Sun Ultra 5 and recently tried a complete upgrade to testing > (using apt-get dist-upgrade). Aside from the normal problems (which I > took in stride, given that this is testing, after all) I discovered that > X did not work. It said it could not detect the ATI video card, then > giving very specific PCI information. > > I'm guessing the server gets the PCI info from the kernel, but then > can't do anything with it. > I have an ATI Mach64 PCI card, with which I know X 4.1.0 works (using > the Debian patch provided by DaveM, I recompiled the sucka and it > worked). I have since reinstalled stable, but I just wanted to give you > folks a heads-up.
The log in /var/log/XFree86.log would have proven useful. I know that X from testing works out-of-the-box on Ultra5 (I have one). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
