GXT2000P on an IBM RS/6000

[Rene Rebe]

On Friday 13 October 2006 15:01, Tom Moyer wrote:
> I have tried to disable the ShadowFB by setting Option ShadowFB "false",
> and now I get a signal 11 when I startx.  The new log is at
> http://geodyn.psu.edu/xorg_errors/Xorg.0.log.sig11
>
> On 10/13/06, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 10:18 -0400, Tom Moyer wrote:
> > > I have been trying to get X.org to work on several IBM RS/6000's
> > > lately and have had no luck.  The two links are to
> > > the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.  Could someone
> > > please look them over and see why I can't get X working.  When I try
> > > startx, I get X to start, but the screen is a mess.
> >
> > Note that the fbdev driver in 7.1 is known to have issues with ShadowFB
> > (see e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7691). If the
> > problem persists with that disabled, please also provide the output of
> > fbset -i.

The GXT2000P was a relabelled Matrox card, no? Some years ago I fixed
the matrox driver to correctly detect the low ammount of RAM (1 or 2 MB IIRC) 
to work correctly on my RS6000 B50. Maybe try the mga driver on your box if 
you silicon is a MGA chip as well.

Yours,

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