I sure don't have all the answers, but I can shed what i believe may be a little lite. the "pretty blue loading screen" is called aurora, and is starting in "frame buffer"mode, not the same thing as an Xwindows Session. but first, can we make SURE that in Bios, "Plug and pray aware OS" is set to "off". next I am not Positive that the video card IS the problem, (heck I ain't positive about what i will eat for dinner,) seems to me that the mouse might have a conflict. is your mouse a PS2? does that card need a IRQ? and what does the brackets mean anyway? On Thursday 12 July 2001 17:44, Cliff Gosden wrote: > Still trying to make my Radeon card work. > When I run startx it appears to load I even get music but my screen goes > onto standby and I see nothing. > When I do Ctrl Alt Backspace I return to system login but with all the > details left from when it tried to startX. > Can you interpret them for me? It seems that one line failed to run and all > the others succeeded Is this the reason why I have no display? (and anyway > Why do I get the pretty blue LM loading screen and not get graphics > afterwards?) > What follows is the screen message I got (the fifth line might be the > problem)(what do the bits in brackets at the beginning of each line mean?) > > (II) Module xaa: vendor="The Xfree86 Project" > compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 > (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp > (==) Radeon (0): Write combining range (0xf8000000.0x2000000) > (WW) Radeon (0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default > (II) Radeon(0) memory manager intialized to (0,0) (1024,8191) > (II) Radeon(0) Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024,770) > (II) Radeon(0) Largest off screen area available: 1024 x 7421 > (==) Radeon(0) Backing store disabled > (==) Radeon(0) Silken mouse enabled > (II) Radeon(0) Using XFree Accelaration Architecture (XAA) > Screen to screen bit blits > Solid filled rectangles > 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > Indirect CPU to screen colour expansion > Solid lines > Dashed lines > Offscreen pixmaps > Setting up tile and stipple cache: > 32 128x128 slots > 32 256x256 slots > 16 512x512 slots > (II) Radeon(0): Accelaration enabled > (II) Radeon(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 3080) > (II) Radeon(0): Largest offscreen arae available: 1024 x 7419 > (**) Radeon(0): DPMS enabled > (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2" > (**) Mouse1: Core pointer > (==) Mouse1: Buttons :3 > (**) Mouse1:ZAxis mapping: Buttons 4 and 5 > (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) > xinit: connection to xserver lost. > waiting for X server to shutdown > > Thanks for any help > > Cliff Gosden
