>>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". >>> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! >> >> This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the >> chip, but... >> >>> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x82000000 e: 0x82ffffff correcting >> >> ... I rather suspect this is the problem. Try a 2.4 kernel, or if you >> use BootX, try using the startup extension instead of the app, or try a >> different bootloader if appropriate. > > The Wallstreet can't use quik so you'll have to patch the PCI resource > allocation (broken by MockOS) on kernel startup. There's a patch against > vintage 2.2 and 2.4 kernels floating around (from early XFree 4 prerelease > days; the same happened initially on my Lombard) that adds code to atyfb > for this very purpose. BenH and Geert should have it in their archives, > and I can dig up a copy if needs be. (Hint: the IO and memory regions are > probably initialized to overlap by MacOS, and XFree deactivates the memory > aperture). > > Michael
Thanks Michael and Michel for your advise. Because I am a newbee and understand that recompiling the 2.2.20 kernel would involve a lot of effort and time, I would like to know if the original kernel in use can work with my Wallstreet by just making some adjustments in the XF86Config-4 file or not. If it is hopeless to follow this way, I will have to patch and compile and whatever a new Kernel (v.2.4.10 ?). At the moment I have still no idea how to do that. I think I will have to read a lot of HOWTO's and spend a lot of precious time with this matter. Michaels Hint uses a lot of techie expressions I never have heard of before, but they sound great. Why hasn't anybody made a precompiled binary? I will never understand this aspect of Debian. Befu
