On Tue, Nov 14, Robert G Palmer Jr wrote:
XFree86 4.01 should work with the "ati" driver. but the setup is a bit tricky. You can not specify a modeline to match a specific resolution. Use fbset to switch the resolution,, the ati driver will take that. It might be possible to specify something like modes "1024x768" to use the built-in modelines, but that does not work in all cases.
I don't quite understand this. I looked in the XF86config file and the modes all say default - for each of the specified bit depths. Should I be changed?
Don't use /etc/XF86config, the XFree86 4 config file is in /etc/X11
After installing the new 4.01 stuff, I saw no difference. I went into the XF86Config file and under the Devices section found that it had a parameter that was 'noaccel'. I changed this to 'accel' and restarted X. I appeared much faster, but none of the background was redrawn. Any _new_ drawing was done correctly, but what was left behind was not cleaned up. In other words, if I drug a window across the screen, it left a big ugly trail of window boundaries across the screen. These never went away.
The driver is buggy. thats the reason why we have noaccel in the options ;) Make sure the symlink /var/X11R6/bin/X points to XFree86 and not to XF86_FBDev. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...