[oclug]Configuring X
Brian Barber
bbarber at mysun.com
Wed Jan 15 09:59:25 EST 2003
Thanks, Jon. I installed xserver-mach64 (which is trivial with apt -
wow) and everything is working well now. It's too bad about the state
of support for Mach64. I have a few of these cards and they have never
given me trouble on any system, under any OS.
Thanks again,
BB
Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON CANADA
brian.barber at mysun.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Earle <je_linux at kronos.honk.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:17 am
Subject: Re: [oclug]Configuring X
> I'm not laughing. I have the PCI version of the same card in my home
> machine. The card is not supported under Xfree86 v4.x. A year or
> so ago,
> I'd spoken to the author of the v4 ATI driver, and he has no plans to
> support the older cards. You need to use the mach64 driver from
> Xfree86v3.x to make things work. Of course, you will not gain any
> of the
> benefits of v4.x, but, short of upgrading, that's the best we can
> expect.
> I can send you my xf86config file if you like.
>
> Cheers!
> Jon
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Brian Barber wrote:
>
> > I switched my little test machine at work from RedHat to Debian,
> which> apart from this X hang-up has gone really, really well.
> Debian is
> > really impressing me.
> >
> > I had X working great under RedHat, but now with Debian I can't
> get X
> > running. I am using an 2MB ATI Mach64 VLB (don't laugh) card
> with a
> > MicroScan 4GP monitor, and running Xfree86 4.1.?? (from Debian
> stable)> and IceWM. I have run through the dpkg-reconfigure
> server-xfree86 with
> > known good parameters so many times that I lost track.
> >
> > Symptoms:
> > For some reason, X starts automatically. /etc/inittab shows
> that the
> > default runlevel is 2; I know that in RedHat the default
> runlevel for X
> > is 5. Is this different in Debian? I suppose that xdm could be
> > launching it. When X starts, my machine locks up (i.e. no
> keyboard or
> > mouse) and I get a dark blue screen that flickers constantly.
> >
> > Below is XF86Config-4 and the tail of xdm.log. If anything else
> would> help please let me know. I'm using TOMSRTBT to access the
> disks>
> > Cheers,
> > BB
> >
> >
> >
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
> > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
> > # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by
> > dexconf, the
> > # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf
> database.> #
> > # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
> > # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
> > #
> > # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf,
> only make
> > changes
> > # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or
> after the
> > # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
> > #
> > # To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
> > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> > # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-
> > generated
> > # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-
> > common/FAQ.gz.
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font
> > server
> > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
> > these
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "bitmap"
> > Load "extmod"
> > Load "freetype"
> > Load "int10"
> > Load "pex5"
> > Load "record"
> > Load "speedo"
> > Load "type1"
> > Load "vbe"
> > Load "xie"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> > Driver "keyboard"
> > Option "CoreKeyboard"
> > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> > Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "CorePointer"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "ATI Mach64 VLB"
> > Driver "ati"
> > VideoRam 2048
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "MicroScan 4GP"
> > HorizSync 30-64
> > VertRefresh 50-100
> > Option "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Default Screen"
> > Device "ATI Mach64 VLB"
> > Monitor "MicroScan 4GP"
> > DefaultDepth 8
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 1
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 4
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 8
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 15
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 16
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > Identifier "Default Layout"
> > Screen "Default Screen"
> > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> > InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> > InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "DRI"
> > Mode 0666
> > EndSection
> >
> > ### END DEBCONF SECTION
> >
> > /var/log/xdm.log:
> > <snip>
> > (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
> > (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 PD (PCI),
> > ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI),
> > ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), 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),
> > ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/driver> (II) Module atimisc:
> vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> > compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 6.3.6
> > (==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati".
> > (**) ATI(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> > (EE) ATI(0): Depth 16 is not supported through this adapter.
> > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/driver> (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 submit at bugs.debian.org.
> >
> > xdm error (pid 238): Server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly: 1
> > xdm error (pid 238): Display :0 is being disabled
> >
> >
> > Brian Barber
> > Ottawa, ON CANADA
> > brian.barber at mysun.com
> >
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