HELP: YDL4 + G4 Silver + Radeon: X broken

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Since you are using fbdev, set the depth to 8 and see what happens.

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:19, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a G4 Silver/800 (PowerMac3,5) with a Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]  
> and a Formac Gallery 1740 connected via the ADC adaptor. With YDL 3 (plus  
> tons of self-compiled packages) X worked perfectly. The current kernel is  
> a self-compiled 2.4.25-ben1.
> 
> I decided to make a manual upgrade in order not to break my self-compiled  
> stuff. After upgrading to YDL 4 xorg, I had to add 'Option "UseFBDev"  
> "true"' to the Device section, but X still worked nicely.
> 
> Now almost everything has been upgraded from 3 to 4, so I installed the  
> new kernel - and X doesn't start any more! During the start process, the  
> screen shortly flickers, and then it ejects saying that no usable screens  
> have been found. Switch back to 2.4 - works fine again, with the same xorg  
> and config. I attach the failed log and the config file (both gzipped) to  
> this message.
> 
> Questions:
> Does anyone have a G4 Silver/Radeon/Formac running with YDL4?
> With what XF86 Config?
> Are special kernel modules needed?
> Are special kernel args needed?
> Is it possible toi get a more detailed information from xorg what actually  
> failes here?
> 
> Any help is really welcome!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Albrecht.
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Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>