On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, damon fasching wrote:
I have just upgraded my Linux distribution, which
included an upgrade of the XFree86 version. I've been
mucking around with my configuration file for a couple
of days with no luck. Here are my system details:
XFree86 version: 4.3.0
OS: debian gnu linux kernel 2.4.27
monitor: Viewsonic P220f
video card: Diamond Fire GL Pro 100
(pretty old video card)
lspci has the line: VGA compatible controller: Texas
Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01)
I've attached three files.
1) /var/log/XFree86.0.log
2) XF86Config-4: My current configuration file.
3) XF86Config_old: The configuration which worked
with the earlier version of XFree86 I was using.
I've messed around a lot with the depth parameter,
based on the error message I was getting.
I'm pretty sure the driver I was using before was
'vga'. That is the driver I was using when the
attached XFree86.0.log was generated. When things
weren't working, out of paranoia, I tried >>every<<
available xserver. Almost all of them failed with "no
devices detected"...no surprises there.
A couple of them, 'generic' and 'glint', gave the
errors "Given depth (32) is not supported by this
driver" and "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
configuration"
The 'vesa' and 'vga' drivers both gave the same error
messages, those in the attached log file: "Weight
given (000) is inconsistent with the depth (32)" and
"Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
configuration"
In the configuration I used with the older version of
XFree86, ColorDepth of 32 worked fine. I also had
'accel' as the driver. I don't think 'vga' is one of
the 'accel' drivers, but am not sure about that.
I don't know what to try next....any ideas?
Your XF86Config's default depth is invalid. Specify 24 instead of 32.
Marc.
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