Xorg Configuration Problem on Itanium64 System with ATI Rage XL

[Wolfgang Meyerle]

Hi, I have problems getting my xserver running.
I'm using as the title already says EFI on an IA64 System and elilo for 
loading the kernel but I think that's not the point.
It seems like the ATI Rage XL card can't be recognized by xorg.
It terminates with the message
using vt7


After I disabled support in kernel for framebuffer devices xorg now 
gives me the error message:
ATI(0): Adapters found to be in VGA mode on server entry are not 
supported by the MMIO-only version of this driver

The xorg.conf uses the ati driver which is not the closed source one 
from ati.
I don't have any xorg.conf at all now because if I have the one from the 
example I run into following problems:
If I change the driver from vga to ati in the (Template: 
xorg.conf.example) I get the error:
[EE] No devices detected

The other system I have is an AMD Opteron (same Graphic card and system 
configuration). There the xserver starts without problems as long as I 
do not have any xorg.conf at all.

I googled around a bit and found that there were problems concerning my 
Configuration (IA64+XFree86) in the year 2004.
I also found a patch that would probably fix this but I don't know if 
it's I can handle it because it seems to be for the xfree86 X Server and 
not for xorg.

Look for yourself and tell me what you think about it: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/10/msg00021.html
Are there things I have to consider concerning the xorg installation?

Regards,

Wolfgang Meyerle
Informatik Student of the university of applied sciences in Ingolstadt