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 -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...