Kent West wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> >> >>> I kept hoping that a new upgrade of the box would bring in the necessary >>> stuff to get it working again, as the GATOS site indicated (as well as I >>> could make out - the site's not organized in a way that I can make much >>> sense of it) that all the ati.2 driver stuff had been moved into the >>> X.org project. >>> >> >> >From gatos.sf.net >> >> News >> Radeon TV-input code has been merged into X.Org CVS, to appear in >> release 7.0. >> >> A r128 is not a radeon card, isn't it? >> >> > Perhaps if I were more of a hardware-buff, I'd have recognized the > import of that statement.
AFAIK, the Radeon and the Rage series are internally entirely different (the r128 means rage128). > > That site also mentions that "Bogdan Diaconescu has ported rage128 and > radeon parts of ati.2 code to XFree86 4.4.0 - the new code is in module > ati.4.4.0 in GATOS CVS." > > So, with the clue you've thrown at me, and with this additional > statement, it looks like my Rage 128 is not going to work with X.org, > and I'll have to go back to XFree86. Am I understanding correctly? What > does this mean for using Debian? It was my understanding that Debian is > dropping XFree86 support in favor of X.org. Yep, could be possible that nobody has ported this code to Xorg yet. > Okay; here's the full log: > http://www.acu.edu/~westk/Xorg.0.log Hmm, nothing that it even tries to detect the tv-in capabilities. You could try to add a line Load "theatre_detect" to your 'Section "Module"'. Lets see what your Xorg logfile will say after this. If it doesn't help, you should ask on a Xorg list. Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
