On Fre, 2002-08-30 at 02:09, vinai wrote: > > 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])
[...] > Any pointers as to how I can get my kernel to play nice with my video > card so I can have accelerated X ? You don't need a special framebuffer device for that. The X driver for your chip (or rather its maintainer) refuses to use a framebuffer device anyway. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast