ATI Mach64 woes...

[Jose L Gomez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi!
I posted this on to USENET, but does anyone have any words of wisdom
about it?
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Hi!
This is the second SVGA/PCI card i try on my computer, and the
second time I encounter this problem. First of all, gpm stops working. The
mouse is on ttyS0, which according to setserial is at 0x03f8 and IRQ4. As
for the graphics card, there seems to be a /proc/ioports entry for it at
0x3c0-0x3df (signalled as vga+). There's no trace of the card in
/proc/interrupts, though.

zgv and other console graphic tools that make use of libsvga work
with an VGA display. It seems that the Mach64 driver is not built into the
debian package (I read that it's very unstable, at least that's what the
README file says, but that file is more than a year old :-?). So, in the
console, the mouse is *dead*.

Trying to start XF86Setup starts the X server and launches the Setup
program. However, the mouse here is dead. It moves when I touch and then
disappears without a trace. This renders the X server useless.

Since this has happened in the past with a different card (an S3
Virge), I blame this on the motherboard. I am looking for bios software
updates, but have not been succesful finding a site that carries them.

Does any one know what might be happening? I'd be more than happy to
provide you with further information (file listings and stuff like that).
The motherboard is a Pentium MMX compatible with PCI and ISA bus and with an
VXPro+ chipset. I'm using debian slink with XFree 3.5.

Tia,
Jose
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Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student
Radar Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

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