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onlinefloh

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Registered: 2008-05-16

Posts: 12

Upgrade of xf86-video-ati breaks X on Rage128-based cards

Hiya Folks,
as i had to find out the hard way this morning, the recent upgrade of xf86-video-ati breaks X on Rage128-based graphics cards as the r128-driver was moved out to its own package. As there isn't a xf86-video-r128 package in extra yet, i managed to fix the missing driver by modifying the original xf86-video-ati PKGBUILD. Works here right now, but could use some cleanup in the dependencies-corner as the Tarball does not contain information on dependencies, so i just kept them the way they were in xf86-video-ati PKGBUILD.

Apparently, there are two ways of configuring the driver in xorg.conf: either keep xf86-video-ati and change the driver entry to

Section "Device"
       ...
    Driver      "ati"
       ...
EndSection

and use xf86-video-ati as wrapper, or keep the driver entry at

Section "Device"
   ...
    Driver      "r128"
   ...
EndSection

and ditch xf86-video-ati, using xf86-video-r128 only

Beware: tested only on ppc Architecture!! Will add other architectures on report...
Et voilá:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17915

Greetings,
Florian

Last edited by onlinefloh (2008-06-20 08:34:28)