On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Asri Sulaiman wrote: > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > >> Your options, at this point, are to talk to Dell (dead end), give up on the > >> onboard adapter in multihead, replace your motherboard, or get a system that's > >> not so broken. Or, as I suggested above, atyfb _might_ come in handy for a > >> change. > I would like to try atyfb first. But please forgive > my ignorance. What would be the best way to set it up? > I found atyfb.o in > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/video/aty > "modprobe atyfb" seems ok at first, but system hang when > I do "init 3". Well, I did say atyfb _might_ work, not _would_ work. > Put modprobe in rc.local, and it hang during boot. (Fortunately > I found the install CD needed to do a rescue. A good side > effect: it moved me to convert all my ext2 partition to ext3 > so recovery would not be so long next time I hit "reset") > Adding "Load atyfb" in the XF86Config file, Section "Module": > it says module not found in XF86 log. Right. atyfb is a kernel module, not an XFree86 one. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
