Subject: Re: ati video problem
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 20:50:19 MST
From what I can tell, it means your XF86config-4 is misconfigured. The
default screen section (the first in the list unless specified on command
line) may be referencing a device that isn't defined, or the device defined
does not match your card device. cat /proc/pci for the device spec. In the
config file, you specify the device as "PCI:bus:device:function". Make sure
your default screen references the identifier for this device section. Also
make sure you are passing the correct video driver to the kernel at boot
(yaboot/ybin)
Have you tried running Xautoconfig4? It might be able to create the correct
config file, but I have little faith in that from my experience. Video
handling on PPC linux is terrible, and it may be pure luck if you ca get it
to work. But if it worked once, it may work again. Just not the way you
might want or need it to :-\
The Xfree86 project has excellent documentation on the configuration file:
http://www.xfree86.org/
Keep in mind that Xautoconfig will overwrite XF86config-4 with every
invocation, and I am not sure how to tell it to force certain configuration
options. If you are not using it, that's probably not a problem.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: Michael Tucker <mtucker@eecs.harvard.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:42:12 -0500 (EST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: ati video problem
>
> Hey,
>
> I am still having difficulty getting a 16MB ATI card to work on a beige
> G3 minitower. I am using the same card, and now the same XF86config-4
> file to no avail. I get the following when I "startx":
>
> scrolling text, blank screen, beep, followed by:
>
> (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.2.3) for chipsets: ati
> (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
> ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK
> (PCI),
> ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 PR,
> ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP),
> ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
> (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
> ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP)
> (WW) R128: No matching Device section for instance (BusID
> PCI:0:18:0) found
> (--) Chipset ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI) found
> (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 0.1.0
> (II) R128(0): PCI bus 0 card 14 func 0
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>
> Any ideas? I can send along the full log file, or check individual lines
> if needed.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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