jingai wrote: > > > > hah, weird.. the "ati" driver works fine, and it is definitely > > > accelerated.. .but the r128 driver won't load due to the unresolved > > > symbols.. > > > > The former r128 and radeon drivers have been integrated into the ati > > driver, so r128_drv.o is only a submodule of ati_drv.o anymore. The > question is > > why r128_drv.o gets loaded directly in the first place. "r128" and > "radeon" > > in the Device Section should both load the ati driver now. I hope you are > in > > fact using the 4.0.2 XFree86 binary? > > Yep: > > colour:/home/jingai# X -version > > XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) > Release Date: 18 December 2000 > > And I was specifying "r128" in the Device section before this release, > which worked up until now. "ati" works fine though, so it's not a huge > deal, but it's obviously a buglet, probably introduced when merging > the two drivers.
I'm not sure. The merge happened before 4.0.1e so it was even in earlier debs. BTW I forgot that you're also running on PPC; this is very interesting because "r128" works for me. Now I'm very confused. > Also, I have one more question regarding this release: I just installed > Debian/sid onto a friend's system, who has an ATI RAGE LT PRO > PCI card, and specifying "ati" in the Device section hangs his machine > hard. Similar to what had happened to me a few releases back. > Unfortunately, I can't look at the output from X because his kernel > hangs before it can flush the cache to disk. You could probably get a log by remounting the filesystem synchronously, but I doubt it would be too helpful. It's possible that he needs to rebuild using the rsync tree from Ani Joshi. > BTW, I am using the latest BK development tree, and he is using > Paul's stable (2.2.18). Also, his machine is literally identical to > mine aside from the video board (both of us have a UMAX S900), > although his video board *did* work in my machine some time > back with an older XF4 release (it used to be my card). Some Mach64 based chips cause problems with 2.2 kernels so he might need to also use a 2.4 one or a patch from Michael Schmitz (check the -powerpc archives). Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project