Re: Xati issues

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:31, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Apologies if this isn't the correct place to post this. I couldn't 
> see anywhere better :-)
> 
> I just compiled the freedesktop.org xserver module (and deps), and 
> have had some success and getting it to do something. I've got a 
> Radeon 9700PRO, which seems to correspond to Radeon R300 ND in the 
> driver..
> 
> Xati does this when run with no options:
>     Fatal server error:
>     [ati]: depth 4 unsupported
> 
> If I run: Xdpi -listmodes
> VBE version 2.0 (ATI R300)
> DAC is fixed, controller is VGA compatible, RAMDAC causes snow
> Total memory: 131072 kilobytes
> 0x0006: 640x200x1 (monochrome) Planar (1 planes)
> 0x000D: 320x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
> 0x000E: 640x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
> 0x0010: 640x350x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
> 0x0011: 640x480x1 (monochrome) Planar (1 planes)
> 0x0012: 640x480x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
> 0x0013: 320x200x8 PseudoColor
> 
> So, I tried: Xati -mode 0x0013
> Something appears, and running xterm on it does change it, but 
> it's still horribly distorted.
> 
> Anyway, if this is a FAQ I'll put it into the Wiki or whatever.
> Otherwise, I'm willing to do whatever to figure it out :-)
> 
> (I did try the Xfbdev server - it does work, but comes up with 
>  everything blue; I think it's using the wrong colour depth. 
>  Xvesa hangs the machine, I'll blame that on my nForce1 motherboard.)
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> Grahame

Looks like your BIOS doesn't support the modes you want.  You're stuck
for now.  Hopefully soon we can get fbdev working and use that as an
option for ati. I just saw a patch from Michel Daenzer which I'm about
to look at.

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