fbdev problems

From: C. Haul (c.haul_at_web.de)
Date: 08/20/03 

Date: 19 Aug 2003 16:40:40 -0700

Hi,
eventually I managed to get tvout working with my ATI rage 128 rf/sg
using
the vesafb kernel driver and boot option "vga=0x315". Even mplayer
works fine
with -vo fbdev.
Hoever, I can't get X11 up and running. It bails out with

(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.0.2
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) FBDEV(0): using default device
(II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode
(**) FBDEV(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) FBDEV(0): RGB weight 888
(==) FBDEV(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) FBDEV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) FBDEV(0): Hardware: VESA VGA (vidmem: 2812k)
(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device...
(II) FBDEV(0): mode "current" not found
(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against monitor...
(--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 800x600 (pitch 800)
(**) FBDEV(0): Built-in mode "current": 48.0 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.1 Hz
(II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "current" 48.00 800 832 928 1024 600 604
608 624 -hsync -vsync -csync
(==) FBDEV(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(**) FBDEV(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"
(II) Loading sub module "shadow"
(II) LoadModule: "shadow"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
(II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
(EE) FBDEV(0): Mode init failed

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

I have tried turning ShadowFB off and disabled all modules in
XF86Config-4
but no change...

Any ideas?

TIA, Chris.