I have a Hercules Prophet 4500 working under XFree86 4.2 with OpenGL working in a Redhat 7.3 machine at 1280x960 85hz (LG Flatron 795FT Plus). Besides i'm a debian user so i know what your problems are. One of the first thing i feel i have to say is that you mistaken the choice of the distribution to begin with linux. Debian is a marvelous distro, but your knoledge of linux have to be high enough to enjoy it. The solution to this problem is a sequence that every linux user should be used to. I don't know if you are new to this world or not. What you first need is a self made kernel image working and loaded, with DRM/DRI support, which you must have compiled from the normal kernel source under /usr/src/linux. Then you must download the latest .tar.gz package from www.PowerVR.com, http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux/powervr-2.00.20-234.tgz,for example. You must decompress and install it. The "make install" command will take information from the source kernel from wich you have compiled the kernel you are running, and use it to compile DRI kernel module for powervr that will go to /lib/modules/2.4..... and other stuff for the kyro card. It also will install the GL libreries and XFree libraries in the correct place. With the powervr driver it comes a XF86Config-4 sample configuration file that would be useful. If you need my XF86Config-4, ask for it and i will send it to you. Bye. El vie, 17-05-2002 a las 04:59, Adam Weston escribió: > (Sorry in advance, this pissy post is the result of extreme frustration) > > I am a new Debian user and have been trying without success to get a working > configuration for X. Every peice of documentation I read is incomplete and > conflicts with some other readme, manpage, faq or howto. I cannot figure out > how to calculate modelines, or if indeed I need to. I am a web developer and > not technically stupid, and I am close to totally giving up. If it's this > difficult for a geek to use Linux, it will never go far as an OS for regular > users :( > > I currently have it running at 640x480/16color/don't know what refresh rate. > I would include the XF86Config but its very large and I would have to copy > it by hand twice because I don't yet know any way to transer files to > Windows. Anyways I'm pretty sure the file is configured wrong and its > working by a fluke. There are about 50 modelines in it, but within X, I > can't change modes at all. I also don't even know if that is the correct > file... > > The manufacturer of the chipset on my video card provides drivers for SuSE, > RedHat, and Mandrake. Will one of these work with Debian? (not that I have > any way to download them) They are found at: > http://www.powervr.com/Downloads.asp > > If anyone can just tell me the steps _ALL of them_ , and the contents of > _EVERY_ file that I have to modify to get a decent > resolution/colordepth/refresh, they will be my hero. Here is all the > relevent information. If anything else is needed I will find it. > > ________________ > __/ MONITOR \_________________________________________ > | | > | Envision N-910e Standard CRT | > | CRT: Size (Diagonal): 19” (48.3cm) | > | (?): FST | > | Viewable Image Size (Diagonal): 18.0” (45.7cm) | > | Pre-set Display Area: 346mm x 260mm | > | Signal Input Video: 0.7Vp-p, RGB analog | > | Compatibility: VESA, XGA, SVGA, VGA | > | Scan Frequency Horizontal: 30K~95KHz | > | Pixel Frequency: 200MHz | > | Max. Resolution: 1600 x 1200 / 75Hz | > | Plug & Play VESA DDC1/2B | > |_____________________________________________________________| > > ______________ > __/ VIDEO CARD \___________________________________________ > | | > | Hercules Prophet 4500 Version 7.89 | > | | > | Video BIOS version: PowerVR KYRO II Bios Rev 01.107 | > | Video RAM: 64 MB | > | Sub system vendor ID: 1681h | > | Board revision: 0h | > |_____________________________________________________________| > > > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. > -Adam > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
