R128 errors

[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

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 8:04 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 May 2021 14:33:27 Chris Fisichella wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> > 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
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