Subject: Re: 2.4 Kernel & Xfree-4.0.1
From: FT Rathore (mawali@news.icns.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 12:09:40 MST
Hi
I am using mine with XF86-4.0.2, linux-2.4.1-pre7 with BootX on my Imac
with 333MHZ Green one.
FT
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Neil Jolly wrote:
>
> > I've compiled the 2.4 kernel with support for rage 128 & 64 (among other
> > things), the kernel boots into runlevel 3 alright, but as soon as i startx or
> > change to runlevel 5 the screen blanks and the system appears to freeze
>
> Although you neglected to mention what machine and boot method
> you are using (always, ALWAYS say at least what machine), it's
> my understanding that if you are using BootX, it leaves the PCI
> bus in a weird state that XFree86 4.x isn't happy with.
> (XFree86 3.x doesn't care). Hence, if you want to use XFree86
> 4.x, you MUST use yaboot. If you're on an old-world machine,
> this implies that you can not use XFree86 4.x.
>
> If anybody knows the above to be false (by actually running
> XFree86 4.x on a machine booted with yaboot, please correct me).
>
> - Paul
>
>
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