xf 4.0.1 with rage II/rage pro -- multi-headed display!

Michael Schmitz schmitz at opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Mon Sep 25 20:03:59 EST 2000


> 3.  On the same machine, the ati driver I built yesterday hoses linux
> completely and doesn't leave a core file.  I'm happy to help the
> developers try to debug this, but I'm not sure what information I can
> provide in this situation (it's also not my machine, so I can't always
> crash it at will).

Does the X server complain about PCI resource conflicts when run as X
--probeonly? Anything about PCI problems in the server log?

If so, send the output of lspci -vv.

BTW: Can you use yaboot for booting?

> 4. On the rev. b beige G3 w/Mach64 Rage Pro, the ati driver seems to
> be working.  The XF probe still gets the wrong amount of vram, and it
> still throws away the mode I constructed via fbset -x.  But it finds

Perhaps the video RAM detection typo which should be gone now ...

	Michael


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