Widescreen Resolution Support

[Juanito]

xf86-video-mach64 extension for tc-5.x/Xorg-7.7 posted - let us know if it works

[Synergy]

I'm not entirely sure I've done this right..

I first attempted to clean it up with
tce-remove xf86-video-mach64

and deleted the 4.x version from /tce/optional

rebooted, then;
tce-load -iw xf86-video-mach64

startx.

Still no widescreen.

[Juanito]

does /var/log/Xorg.0.log show that the mach64 driver is being loaded?

[Synergy]

No. Only references to mach is in reference to the hardware. Driver still mentions Vesa.

http://pastebin.com/sRD8Ftty

in fact it seems to be looking for the ati driver, then falling back to vesa.

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[   372.195]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 7.0
[   372.195] (==) AIGLX enabled
[   372.195] Loading extension GLX
[   372.196] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 0
[   372.196] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 1
[   372.196] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[   372.196] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[   372.196] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[   372.196] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
[   372.198] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
[   372.198] (II) UnloadModule: "ati"
[   372.198] (II) Unloading ati
[   372.198] (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
[   372.198] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[   372.199] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[   372.199] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   372.199]    compiled for 1.14.2, module version = 2.3.2
[   372.199]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   372.199]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[   372.199] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[   372.201] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[   372.201] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[   372.201] (II) Unloading modesetting
[   372.201] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[   372.201] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[   372.202] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[   372.203] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   372.203]    compiled for 1.14.2, module version = 0.4.3
[   372.203]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   372.203]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[   372.203] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[   372.204] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[   372.204] (--) using VT number 2


[Juanito]

You could try the xf86-video-ati extension and see what happens, perhaps your hardware needs both drivers to be present?

I see your mode is found:

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[   372.470] (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0   85.50  1366 1436 1579 1792  768 771 774 798 +hsync +vsync (47.7 kHz eP)

[Synergy]

I should've thought of that myself really. It worked. Thanks a lot for your help dude. I love the project and have so many ideas. Need to brush up on my linux skills a lil.

[Juanito]

..does the log show your hardware used both drivers?

[Synergy]

Xorg.0.log
http://pastebin.com/0td1wuy0

It appears to load ati, mach64, vesa... but settle using mach64.

However, now whenever I start an Citrix ICA connection it'll crash.. If I start firefox, it'll also crash. I'm just looking for a log that'll give me something to work from. that log above is posted after finding out that Citrix Receiver/FF crash.

So close... yet...

[Juanito]

What do you mean by "crash" - do you get any error messages?

[Synergy]

Nothing. It starts to load then drops directly back to the console. No messages

[Juanito]

How much ram do you have?

You could try starting firefox from a terminal window to see if you get any error messages.

[Synergy]

Thanks. Executing firefox from console drops this message.

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(process:5739): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys+page_size = 0' failed
Error: no display specified

There are a few bug reports around based on this error and firefox.

The client has 256Mb RAM. I'm going to put in something bigger (if I can find any lying around) and see if that resolves it. I'm also going to build another from scratch. Considering it's quite a basic install to this point. I may have reconfigured something I shouldn't have.

[Synergy]

So fresh install..
TinyCorePlus without extra WM.
Installed Xorg-7.7 xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-mach64
Installed Firefox
Run firefox.. Crashes out with the g_slice_set_config error.

I have no spare DDR RAM lying about.

[Juanito]

maybe you could try opera9 instead of firefox and see what happens?

[Synergy]

Hi,

Yeah, opera is working. Citrix still crashes out though.