Hey Folks, Thanks to Carlos and Chris, I got through most of my install of Debian 3.0 ... I think I have everything working, except for X.
I have a Mach64 card, and am running a 2.4.18 kernel. Regardless of the options I specify to the kernel at boot time, or to the program that configures X, I cannot get an accelerated environment. The kernel will boot ONLY with the "No video driver" box checked. If I try to pass "video=atyfb" or "video=fbdev", the kernel halts after the arch: exit line. The output of lspci gives: 00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [ VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR - FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 24 Region 0: Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: I/O ports at 0400 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at 80800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at 80820000 [disabled] [size=128K] Any pointers as to how I can get my kernel to play nice with my video card so I can have accelerated X ? Again - thanks to everyone that helped me get through the installation. ciao vinai