Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: > BTW, I've duplicated this problem on an LX164 under RH 7.0 with the > Mach64 server - works with 2.2.17 kernel, fails with 2.4.1... :-\ I have an Mach 64 based card and it works fine under 2.0.xx & Xfree 3.x (RH 5.1 and up)

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:13:31PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > I have a Permedia 2 based card (Diamond FireGL 2) in my SX164, and it > also doesn't work properly with XFree 4 (pixmaps get corrupted. > Usually, I try to fix bugs myself, but I have no idea how to debug > this...). OTOH, this can

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Be careful about the card you choose - some of the most recent cards > don't always work with the BIOS emulator that is in the consoles of > the older machines. Rage128 and Radeon are fine in LX/SX, and have > the added benefit of running OpenGL apps via

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:13:25PM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > I guess that you spent a lot of time to find a solution to this problem, > and I would like to thank you very much for it. No problem; it gave me a chance to look at the Mach64 again... > I will follow your suggestion: f

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
Hello, I guess that you spent a lot of time to find a solution to this problem, and I would like to thank you very much for it. I will follow your suggestion: first compile and install XFree86 4.x, and then buy a new graphic card. > if you really must go to a 2.4 kernel In fact, I miss only on

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:05:29AM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > > If possible, see if the server has "verbose" mode, maybe it will output > > a few more messages that might give us a clue. > > The Xserver(1) man page says something about an -audit option, set by > default to 1 and that

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
> If possible, see if the server has "verbose" mode, maybe it will output > a few more messages that might give us a clue. The Xserver(1) man page says something about an -audit option, set by default to 1 and that should "additionally reports all successful connections and disconnect". But I don'

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
Hello, that's funny that you talk about the loop device: I wanted to have it (simply because I often use it), but the kernel compilation crashed on an error about this function deactivate_page. After having deleted the two calls to this function, as you told me, I could successfully compile the 2.

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:52:39PM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > > Also, posting the following might help: > > > > 1. .config for the 2.4.12/14 kernel, > > 2. lspci -v under both 2.4.x and 2.2.x > > 3. /etc/X11/XF86Config > > I joined these files (however, I can't give you .conf

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
> I seem to remember that something might have been broken in 2.4.12; > could you try with 2.4.14? I just tried with a 2.4.14 kernel, and then with a 2.4.13 kernel. I get exactly the same error (cmp does not show any difference between the log files). I also tested these 2.4.x kernel with the SuS

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
My bad...I was thinking Mach32. Ignore me :-P C On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > Hi, > > > Mach64 cards aren't supported on Alpha, > > Are you sure? > > I've been using Linux with my Alpha since two years and more. At the very > beginning, I had an ATI card and X worked p

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:29:16PM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > I've been using Linux with my Alpha since two years and more. At the very > beginning, I had an ATI card and X worked perfectly with RedHat 5.3. Now, > I am writting this message under X with SuSE 7.0 an another ATI card.

Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-08 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
Hi, > Mach64 cards aren't supported on Alpha, Are you sure? I've been using Linux with my Alpha since two years and more. At the very beginning, I had an ATI card and X worked perfectly with RedHat 5.3. Now, I am writting this message under X with SuSE 7.0 an another ATI card. But, much more im