Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: David Gurvich <david.gurvich@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:51:57
Message-Id: 200605040950.51162.david.gurvich@verizon.net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration? by "Mark M. Hart"
1 I believe that either you are missing a driver in your kernel, or haven't
2 loaded it if set as a module.
3 On Thursday 04 May 2006 9:41 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
4 > I just did an emerge on Xorgautoconfig and ran the command, but the
5 > xorg.conf file it makes doesn't work - it tells me that ATI(0) Adapter has
6 > not been initialized, and Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
7 > configuration.
8 >
9 > It sets Mode 1024x768 at several depths, which I can live with, and default
10 > mode of 16, which I can also live with. Now if I could just get it to work
11 > ...
12 >
13 > Thanks!
14 >
15 > Mark M. Hart
16 >
17 > -----Original Message-----
18 > From: David Gurvich [mailto:david.gurvich@×××××××.net]
19 > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
20 > To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
21 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
22 >
23 > There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
24 > generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
25 > results.
26 >
27 > On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
28 > > I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
29 > > the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor
30 > > is attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati
31 > > choice will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which
32 > > works well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
33 > >
34 > >
35 > >
36 > > When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
37 > > driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
38 > > merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
39 > > getting anywhere.
40 > >
41 > >
42 > >
43 > > Thanks in advance for your help!
44 > >
45 > >
46 > >
47 > > Mark M. Hart
48 >
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