R128 errors

[Chris Fisichella]

Hi,

I am coming off of a previous post where I had just a black screen. That
has changed. I can now access my Xorg.0.log file. It is attached.

If anyone who is familiar with the R128 driver can help debug what I need
to do, I would appreciate it.

The computer is a 32 bit machine. The video card is the ATI ALL-IN-WONDER
128 PRO. The operating system is Debian 10.9.0.

The driver seems to be identifying the card okay. I don't know why it is
still generating errors. Any ideas?

Best Regards,
Chris

[Gene Heskett]

Post by Chris Fisichella
Hi,
I am coming off of a previous post where I had just a black screen.
That has changed. I can now access my Xorg.0.log file. It is attached.

And it looks like it gave it the old college try. And I don't see on a
32 bit system, any reason why the address reported as out of range in
the EE lines, should be out of range.

Post by Chris Fisichella
If anyone who is familiar with the R128 driver can help debug what I
need to do, I would appreciate it.
The computer is a 32 bit machine. The video card is the ATI
ALL-IN-WONDER 128 PRO. The operating system is Debian 10.9.0.

What I do get the impression of, is that you are doing battle with a
frankenstein card, something ati has been quite famous for in my now 20+
year old history, changing the card in the box, making it incompatible
with the published drivers for linux, without updateing a single crossed
t or dotted i on the box. Plain and simple it was not the card I bought
but the next production run. I yelled at ati, and was promised linux
drivers for that chipset would be announced in about 2 weeks. Never
happened, and I wasted almost $85 running out to buy it in about 1999.

At least the $29 nvidia card worked with the vesa driver. But that
experience taught me to not believe a thing Alex tells me. YMMV.

Post by Chris Fisichella
The driver seems to be identifying the card okay. I don't know why it
is still generating errors. Any ideas?
Best Regards,
Chris

Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
_______________________________________________
***@lists.x.org: X.Org support
Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg
Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Your subscription address: %(user_address)s

[Chris Fisichella]

Hi Gene,

Thanks for replying. I have no idea if it was a low volume card. You are
probably right. I just need S-video so I can stream movies for the kids
when they come over.

I am thinking of going back to the Xorg.0.log file and looking at the list
of cards that driver supports and seeing if I can get one still. What do
you think?

It would still be nice to get this ALL-IN-WONDER card running, but it is a
strange beast; it does TV in. They likely had to change some things to get
it to work. The more I think about it, the more I think you are correct.

Best Regards,
Chris

Post by Gene Heskett

Post by Chris Fisichella
Hi,
I am coming off of a previous post where I had just a black screen.
That has changed. I can now access my Xorg.0.log file. It is attached.

And it looks like it gave it the old college try. And I don't see on a
32 bit system, any reason why the address reported as out of range in
the EE lines, should be out of range.

Post by Chris Fisichella
If anyone who is familiar with the R128 driver can help debug what I
need to do, I would appreciate it.
The computer is a 32 bit machine. The video card is the ATI
ALL-IN-WONDER 128 PRO. The operating system is Debian 10.9.0.

What I do get the impression of, is that you are doing battle with a
frankenstein card, something ati has been quite famous for in my now 20+
year old history, changing the card in the box, making it incompatible
with the published drivers for linux, without updateing a single crossed
t or dotted i on the box. Plain and simple it was not the card I bought
but the next production run. I yelled at ati, and was promised linux
drivers for that chipset would be announced in about 2 weeks. Never
happened, and I wasted almost $85 running out to buy it in about 1999.
At least the $29 nvidia card worked with the vesa driver. But that
experience taught me to not believe a thing Alex tells me. YMMV.

Post by Chris Fisichella
The driver seems to be identifying the card okay. I don't know why it
is still generating errors. Any ideas?
Best Regards,
Chris

Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
_______________________________________________
Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg
Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Your subscription address: %(user_address)s