Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 SOLVED on Beige G3
From: Stefan Jeglinski (jeglin@4pi.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 09:46:32 MST
>To get the desired screen resolution [1152x870 in my case - I know,
>I am being Mac specific here =8] was a bit tricky, untill I found
>fbset. The important thing, at least for me, was to have the desired
>screen resolution from the beginning - booting - which meant to find
>the right kernel parameters to pass. My machine is a YDL 2.1 only
>system, booting via miBoot. I added a line: append =
>"video=atyfb:vmode:18,cmode:24" to my boot.conf [try man fbset for
>valid modes or man nvvideo]. This got me straight into the desired
>resolution in console mode. Running fbset gave me the stuff I had to
>add to /etc/fb.modes - running fbset -x the lines for
>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Prior to editing the XF86Config-4 file, I ran
>Xautoconfig4 in order to get a minimum config. All throughout this,
>I was running in runlevel 3, starting and stopping X manually to
>have more control.
This is pretty much the same thing I did with my ATI Rage Pro card.
But no dice for me.
>I attached my /etc/X11/XF86config as well as a /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>Hope this helps.
>
>ps.: maybe someone out there can at least confirm my assumption in
>running accelarated according to my logfile.
Yes, according to your log file, you are running accelerated.
Congratulations :-) I'm confused by the log though, admittedly
because I may not be able to decipher it too well... what video
devices do you have on your G3 233/DT? I see in the log both:
(II) ATI: Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:18:0 detected.
and:
(--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage II graphics controller detected.
(--) ATI(0): Chip type 4754 "GT", version 2, foundry UMC, class 0,
revision 0x02.
(--) ATI(0): PCI bus interface detected; block I/O base is 0x0400.
Do you have 2 video cards?
Stefan Jeglinski
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