X fails on YDL4 clean install

[Thomas Kirk]

I am using a g4 500. I could not boot. I than installed an nivida card 
and everything went fine. The install doesn't seem to like cards which 
support a digital output at a guess. The card that wouldn't work was a 
ATI rage pro. Thomas
On Nov 29, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Nigel Horne wrote:

> X fails to start on YDL4 on a Powerbook G4. YDL2.2/2.3/3 were all OK.
> This is a clean installation, not an update.
>
> The worrying section from /etc/X11/XF86Config is:
>
> Section "Device"
>
>         #Option "ShadowFB"      "true"
>         #Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
>         #BusID  "0:0:0"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "fbdev"
>         BoardName   "Unknown video card"
>         Option      "UseFBDev" "true"
> EndSection
>
> From /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> II) Loading sub module "fb"
> (II) LoadModule: "fb"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
> (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
> (**) FBDEV(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"
> (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
> (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
> (II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
> (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): Mode init failed
>
> -Nigel
>
>
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