On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:09:18AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > But now something wants a missing "Mach64" module. There is a > mach64_dri.so module in X's dri directory. I went through the kernel > yet again and there's nothing but in the frame buffers for Mach64, but > that would be a module named afyfb. Xorg -configure calls for the ati > driver module.
Googling for 'mach64 xorg modules' found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129552 which suggests you need xf86-video-mach64 (new from xorg-7.4) instead of xf86-video-ati. But for 7.2 it looks as if the 6.6.3 ati driver was supposed to still cover. There is apparently no mach driver in 7.2. That is confirmed by an ubuntu page for their 'hardy' [ 2010-10, I guess ] version of the ati driver (6.8.0) which still supports mach. Just to check, you are using an ATI Mach (or perhaps, Rage) video card and the ati driver ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Mach and .../ATI_Rage give details of those cards. I would have thought that using the wrong driver would mean no video in xorg. So, xorg-7.2 is broken for you ? Or somehow falling back to something else, e.g. a generic VGA driver ? You sound as if you have video, at least for root running Xorg -configure, so I'm uncertain about how I've parsed your report. On modern hardware, recent xorg is a walk in the park (use evdev, configure the keyboard, and that's all that's needed for a single screen in most cases. Unfortunately, I've probably forgotten a lot of the details about configuring old versions of xorg. > > But I guess I should go sign-up for X's mailing list to persue this. LOL - they can be helpful, but I very much doubt they have any more interest than we do in such an old version. They'll probably ask if 7.7 or current development versions work [ for the whole thing ]. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
