G4, ATI 128, X Serve Problems
Oscar G. Maldonado
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
29 Sep 2003 17:38:41 -0500
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lindsey <yesdnile@yahoo.com>
Subject: G4, ATI 128, X Serve Problems
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Hi, I have a 400 MHz G4 with an AGP ATI rage 128 card. I just
installed linux last week (and so am very green). I can't get X
serve (I think this is what the GUI is called) to work well. I
followed the "How to" instructions on terrasoft's site. However,
the only configuration where I can get XServe to lauch is when I
set the device in the X configuration file to fbdev and the
depth to 8. Any other setting (using the ati driver which
XAutoCong detects, or changing the color depth to 16) does not
work, I get a fatal error and sent back to the command line. I
was wondering if anyone who had solved this problem could lend
me some help.
Thanks,
Lindsey
As far as I know, the main problem reside on the XFree 4.3.0 server, I
have an old imac DV 400 and my problem with the X server was that
whenever i logged out the X server died what makes me reboot to get the
X server again. After a lot of searching on linux sites for a probable
fix i found this part of code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage 128 PRO"
# You can obtain the Bus Id for your card by:
# cat /proc/pci and change 16 for the value of
# your card
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
Driver "r128"
Option "UseFBDev" ""
BoardName "ATI Rage 128 PRO"
EndSection
Hope this help you...
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Subject: G4, ATI 128, X Serve Problems<BR>
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Hi, I have a 400 MHz G4 with an AGP ATI rage 128 card. I just installed linux last week (and so am very green). I can't get X serve (I think this is what the GUI is called) to work well. I followed the "How to" instructions on terrasoft's site. However, the only configuration where I can get XServe to lauch is when I set the device in the X configuration file to fbdev and the depth to 8. Any other setting (using the ati driver which XAutoCong detects, or changing the color depth to 16) does not work, I get a fatal error and sent back to the command line. I was wondering if anyone who had solved this problem could lend me some help.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks,<BR>
Lindsey
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As far as I know, the main problem reside on the XFree 4.3.0 server, I have an old imac DV 400 and my problem with the X server was that whenever i logged out the X server died what makes me reboot to get the X server again. After a lot of searching on linux sites for a probable fix i found this part of code:<BR>
<BR>
Section "Device"<BR>
<BR>
Identifier "ATI Rage 128 PRO"<BR>
# You can obtain the Bus Id for your card by: </TT><BR>
# cat /proc/pci and change 16 for the value of <BR>
# your card<BR>
<TT> BusID "PCI:0:16:0"<BR>
Driver "r128"<BR>
Option "UseFBDev" ""<BR>
BoardName "ATI Rage 128 PRO"<BR>
EndSection<BR>
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