Hi, Let me try again: Why three kernels? I suspect that confusion will arise because: how can they all co-exist, and which version of Xfree is running things? The latter decides which video cards are supported based on age. Did you try the YD help pages? They should be free, or at least the archives. If the video card is OEM and not retail, Xfree might have problems installing the Linux driver. George --- NJ Kennerly <dontdrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to get a question thru yesterday, but > earthlink's mail server was > quirky - only parts of it came thru, so I'd thought > I'd try again. > > I have been unable to get X up and running on a Blue > and White G3 with an > ATI xclaim vr / rage pro. > > My yaboot.conf put together by the Yellow Dog Linux > 3.0 installer added a > kernel argument that causes the system to boot up > into a mode not supported > by the video card (append="video=ofonly") > dmesg shows a line: > Using unsupported 1280x1024 ATY,XCLAIMVRPro at > 81000000, depth=8, > pitch=1280 > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device > 160x64 > fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on > /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/ATY,XCLAIMVRPro@2 > > There are three kernels Iinstalled: > 2.4.20-8d > 2.4.20-8e > 2.4.22-2g > and I've tried changing *ofonly* to *atyfb* (on all > three kernels) but can't > even get a display in text mode from that. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
