I've recently installed Slack8 on my system and it includes XFree86 4.1.0... I
installed the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries
from the xfree86.org site, and it seems to work well
Only problem I'm having is that XFree86 4.2's ATI driver, no matter what video mode,
causes the screen to appear with
the upper edge of the screen stretched horizontally somewhat... while the rest of the
screen looks normal.
Trying the ati_drv.o and atimisc_drv.o from XF 4.1 it works fine, no stretchedness in
the screen...
Trying with the ati.2 drivers from the GATOS project, the ones compiled from XF 4.2.0
sources, does the same thing as the regular XF 4.2 drivers... the upper edge of the
screen is stretched.
FYI here's some info on my card:
first two lines of the entry in lspci -vv:
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro (rev 5c) (prog-if
00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0061
>From /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (using the ati.2 from XF 4.2 drivers)
(--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics controller detected.
(--) ATI(0): Chip type 4749 "GI", version 4, foundry UMC, class 0, revision 0x01.
(--) ATI(0): PCI bus interface detected; block I/O base is 0xDC00.
(--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected.
(!!) ATI(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities
of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net.;
(--) ATI(0): Internal RAMDAC (subtype 1) detected.
(==) ATI(0): RGB weight 565
(==) ATI(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) ATI(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) ATI(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC.
(II) ATI(0): Storing hardware cursor image at 0xD57FFC00.
(II) ATI(0): Using 8 MB linear aperture at 0xD5000000.
(!!) ATI(0): Virtual resolutions will be limited to 8191 kB
due to linear aperture size and/or placement of hardware cursor image area.
(II) ATI(0): Using Block 0 MMIO aperture at 0xD7000400.
(II) ATI(0): Using Block 1 MMIO aperture at 0xD7000000.
(II) ATI(0): MMIO write caching enabled.
(--) ATI(0): 8192 kB of SGRAM (1:1) detected (using 8191 kB).
(WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer.
(--) ATI(0): Internal programmable clock generator detected.
(--) ATI(0): Reference clock 315/11 (28.636) MHz.
(II) ATI(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-49.00 kHz
(II) ATI(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-90.00 Hz
(II) ATI(0): Maximum clock: 230.00 MHz
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