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AfterShoxX
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:51 am    Post subject: Xwindows Warp-age Reply with quote

When I begin an Xwindows session the entire screen become totally contorted, for lack of a better word, like a twisted towel :? (?). This didn't start until I enabled Option "UseFBDev" in my XFree86 conf file, but before then I couldn't reach any of my consoles or logout of Xwindows without my monitor going totally blank, so I take this as an improvement. Why "UseFBDev" does this is beyond me.

This is the best example I can give you :(

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(Might look a bit funky in non fixed width font.)

In between these slanted bars are skewed images of whatever is on my desktop, but my mouse pointer shows up absolutely fine. 8O

ANY help would be GREATLY Appreciated. (!!!)

Thanks
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whoops, I forgot to define my preffered mode for each bit level.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for future use, the UseFBDev option tells XFree to get the specific card information from the console frambuffer driver the card is using, instead of trying to poll directly from the card's BIOS AFAIK.

PPC hasn't always had the best of luck properly reading video card BIOS. On some cards this is required to work at all.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I often get an Error (EE) from V_BIOS, saying it cannot be read. :?:

(EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler

Most of my problems have been resolved, just need AGP, for that extra surge. 8)
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AfterShoxX wrote:
I often get an Error (EE) from V_BIOS, saying it cannot be read. :?:

(EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler

Most of my problems have been resolved, just need AGP, for that extra surge. 8)


Yes, that is a known error, and using the UseFBDev Option fixes that. AFAIK right now AGP is not alltogether happy on PPC kernels.
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