Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (129 mails)

[Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 25, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> Now that I managed to get Suse 7.3 sort-of-running with an older 
> kernel (2.4.2), I can't set up XFree86 4 - it only allows me to set 
> up 3, and I swear I had 4 working perfectly well in Suse 7.0.
> 
> I don't know if this new problem is because of 7.3, or because of the 
> old kernel.

It is the newer XFree86.

> My card is a Mach64, and looking at older list messages I saw that 
> there are some problems with it since 7.1, although I didn't manage 
> to find any solutions.
> 
> my /proc/fb says:
> 0 ATY Mach64
> 1 IMS TT (TVP)
> 
> (The second card is not in use, since it used to have problems under 
> Linux, and as soon as I get a second ethernet card, I'll need the 
> extra PCI slot, so using that card is the less preferred option).
> 
> If I use "sax2 -a" the "BoardName" line in the resulting  is "3D Rage 
> I/II 215GT".
> 
> The machine is oldworld, and I pass display parameters for the 
> kernel: video=atyfb:vmode:10,cmode:24

This is wrong, the color depth 24 does not work on some mach64 chips
since XFree86 4.1 and it is still unfixed in 4.2. Try cmode:15.
Use defaultcolordepth 15 in your /etc/X11/XF86config.

> Dmesg indicates, in the PCI section:
> 
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:11.0
>   got res[10000000:10000fff] for resource 2 of ATI technologies Inc 
> 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT].

This should be harmless.


Gruss Olaf

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