Kris Noland (kris@primordialsoft.com)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 04:35:39 -0500
Hi all,
I've got X running fairly nicely on my ANS. But I cheated. I stuck an
old ATI Xclaim GA card in the machine, and have been running off of that.
It's got 2MB of vram, so I'm able to do 16bpp at 1024x768. I've had
more luck with Xpmac than FBDev. And I've had *no* luck with XFree86
3.3.5. (Xpmac or FBDev) I suspect that has more to do with the age of my
ATI card than anything else. If anyone's interested in details, I'll
post them here.
It was fairly easy: install the card on pci bus 1, tweak OF, and add some
kernel arguments to quik.conf. I would imagine any linux supported video
card would work (ATI, Matrox, etc.) Places like smalldog.com have cards
fairly cheap. 2MB Matrox $49, 4MB ATI Xclaim 3D Rage Pro $99, etc. And
they have *lots* of them.
As far as the built-in video is concerned, support for the Cirrus 54m30
has been languishing at 640x480 for a long time. Unfortunately, I don't
have the necessary chops yet to do anything about it. And frankly, with
the installation of the ATI card, it's fallen *way* down on my priority
list. Right now, my priorities are to get MOL running, and to fix some
display issues with lcdProc, find a 3-button mouse that works, scrape
together some cash for more memory and hd space, etc., etc.
later,
kris
>I guess that no one has X running on their ANS.
>
>Has everyone run into the no valid modes issue? If anyone can get X
>to boot, send us (all) a copy of the XF86Config and fb.modes files
>(my guess is that the fix resides in one of those two places).
>
>For anyone not experiencing the problem, X tries to load, but can't.
>When you check the log, it seems that X first throws out all the
>refresh rates that the monitor can't run, then invalidates all the
>other modes. Something with frame-buffer video, perhaps? Something
>with the video support in the ans kernel? AIX was able to support
>1024x768 @ 72 Hz very nicely. The VRAM is 1MB. We should be able to
>get something...
Have you tried fbset -x? It spat out some really helpful information
when I put X on my powerbook where Xconfigurator and Xautoconfig failed
miserably.
Kris Noland
Partner
Primordial Software
kris@primordialsoft.com
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