the acceleration is excellent.
thks alot guys:)

Paul.






"Paul (NCC/CS)." wrote:

> Thks to all. X is working!
> I'm doing pkgsrc now for accel.
>
> And Joel, I do have the internal ATI and Elite 3d card, fyi.
> Sticking to single head with Michael's config it's ok though.
>
> chs,
> P.
>
> Michael wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > > do you have both an internal ATI and the Elite 3D ?
> > >
> > > I'm having the same kinda issue with the internal ATI and a PCI PGX64.
> > > ################################
> > > (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Card0".
> > > (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Card1".
> > > (II) ATI:  Unshared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:2:0 detected.
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=2000,a=12000000] (Invalid
> > argument)
> > > ################################
> > >
> > > Michael is investigating on my issue...
> > > Perharps solving mine will solve yours ;)
> >
> > It's sort of related, but not the way you think ( sadly ).
> >
> > Paul - X -configure will have set up a dual-screen configuration which
> > isn't going to work currently. Please remove all references to your
> > onboard ATI Rage chip from /etc/X11/XF86Config and it should work ( if
> > you're unsure about this just mail me, or just use the attached example
> > ).
> > Sorry for this but there isn't really anything we can do about this
> > short of hacking the way XFree accesses PCI devices. But we'll probably
> > have to do it some day. Anyway, the short version of the story is - only
> > one PCI graphics controller will currently be usable and only if it is
> > the console. XFree doesn't know how to access non-console PCI graphics
> > chips but it finds them by scanning the bus.
> >
> > Don't forget - you'll need the afbinit utility from pkgsrc/sysutils/ and
> > a copy of the AFB firmware ( /usr/lib/afb.ucode on any halfway recent
> > Solaris box ) or acceleration in X won't work. For copyright reasons we
> > can't ship these, the Linux folks have been pestering Sun to release an
> > AFB firmware image they can distribute but without success it seems.
> >
> > have fun
> > Michael
> >
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> Paul
> Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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