[parisc-linux] X on J5000

[parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Jeremy Drake]

I've finally got a fairly stable setup - the latest 2.4.18-pa11 single
proc.  Now I've got a USB card, and I am able to make the graphics console
and hid keyboard working.  Now I've moved on to X.  I read somewhere, tho
I forget where, that I have to do fbset -i to get the resolution.  This
reports no such device.

So, I'd like a pointer to an X on J5000 setup howto and a little help
figuring out the fb stuff.


TIA


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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Ryan Bradetich]

Jeremy,

When the system booted up, did you see Tux?  If you saw the Tux
log that means the fb is setup properly and fbset -i should work.

If you didn't see tux that means the fb is not working for your card.

hope that helps!

- Ryan

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:19, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> I've finally got a fairly stable setup - the latest 2.4.18-pa11 single
> proc.  Now I've got a USB card, and I am able to make the graphics console
> and hid keyboard working.  Now I've moved on to X.  I read somewhere, tho
> I forget where, that I have to do fbset -i to get the resolution.  This
> reports no such device.
> 
> So, I'd like a pointer to an X on J5000 setup howto and a little help
> figuring out the fb stuff.
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> -- 
> If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers.
> But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
> 		-- Swami Prabhupada
> 
> 
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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Carlos O'Donell Jr.]

> I've finally got a fairly stable setup - the latest 2.4.18-pa11 single
> proc.  Now I've got a USB card, and I am able to make the graphics console
> and hid keyboard working.  Now I've moved on to X.  I read somewhere, tho
> I forget where, that I have to do fbset -i to get the resolution.  This
> reports no such device.
> 
> So, I'd like a pointer to an X on J5000 setup howto and a little help
> figuring out the fb stuff.
> 
> 
> TIA
>

I believe the J5000 has a Visualize EG PCI card, and that should
be working.

fbset -i will give you all the geometry you need, but won't work
without the compiled fbdev.

You need to go into [Console Drivers] and turn on the frame-buffer
support for your system ("Generic STI Framebuffer Support").

Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Jeremy Drake]

Sorry, no tux.  But, due to extenuating circumstances I had to boot
serial console, so the display wasn't initted until late in the boot
process.
So, if the fb is not working, why wouldn't it be and what can I do to make
it work.
Here's the /proc/pci entry for the card

  Bus  4, device   7, function  0:
    3D controller: PCI device 103c:108b (Hewlett-Packard Company) (rev 3).
      IRQ 160.
      Master Capable.  Latency=255.
      Prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xfb000000 [0xfbffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xfa000000 [0xfaffffff].

Here's from dmesg
Linux version 2.4.18-pa11 (root@krakatoa) (gcc version 3.0.4) #1 Tue Mar 26 16:24:33 PST 2002
...
STI PCI ROM enabled at 0xf7000000
PCI graphic ROM found at f7000000 (128 kB), fb @ fb000000 (16 MB)
PCI region 0: fb000000 with 16384 kB
PCI region 1: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 2: fa000000 with 16384 kB
PCI region 3: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 4: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 5: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 6: f7000000 with 128 kB
PCI region 7: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 8: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 9: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 10: 00000000 with 0 kB
PCI region 11: 00000000 with 0 kB
Trying PCI STI ROM at f7000000, PCI hpa at fb000000
STI word mode ROM at f7000044, hpa=fb000000
STI word mode ROM, id 35acda16-9a02587, conforms to spec rev. 8.0c
STI PCI ROM disabled
STI device: HPA4982A
...
sticonsole_init: searching for STI ROMs
Console: switching to colour STI console 160x64


 On 26 Mar 2002, Ryan Bradetich wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> When the system booted up, did you see Tux?  If you saw the Tux
> log that means the fb is setup properly and fbset -i should work.
>
> If you didn't see tux that means the fb is not working for your card.
>
> hope that helps!
>
> - Ryan
>
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:19, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> > I've finally got a fairly stable setup - the latest 2.4.18-pa11 single
> > proc.  Now I've got a USB card, and I am able to make the graphics console
> > and hid keyboard working.  Now I've moved on to X.  I read somewhere, tho
> > I forget where, that I have to do fbset -i to get the resolution.  This
> > reports no such device.
> >
> > So, I'd like a pointer to an X on J5000 setup howto and a little help
> > figuring out the fb stuff.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > --
> > If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers.
> > But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
> > 		-- Swami Prabhupada
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > parisc-linux mailing list
> > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
> > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Jeremy Drake]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Carlos O'Donell Jr. wrote:

> I believe the J5000 has a Visualize EG PCI card, and that should
> be working.
>
> fbset -i will give you all the geometry you need, but won't work
> without the compiled fbdev.
>
> You need to go into [Console Drivers] and turn on the frame-buffer
> support for your system ("Generic STI Framebuffer Support").

It is already there

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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Ryan Bradetich]

Jeremy,

> STI device: HPA4982A

This device does not appear to be support in the
drivers/video/sti/stifb.c.  A quick google search
didn't tell me which family this card belong to,
so I can't even give you a suggestion to try an 
add it to one of the supported groups to see if
that works.  Maybe one of the STI/fb hackers on
this list will have more info for you.

sorry :(

- Ryan

Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Chuck Slivkoff]

Ryan Bradetich wrote:

>Jeremy,
>
>>STI device: HPA4982A
>>
>
>This device does not appear to be support in the
>drivers/video/sti/stifb.c.  A quick google search
>
That would be a Visualize-FXe. It is completely different than any of 
the supported devices.




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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Jeremy Drake]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Chuck Slivkoff wrote:

> That would be a Visualize-FXe. It is completely different than any of
> the supported devices.

Does this mean I don't get any X?  Maybe I could be of some help testing
wise, or possibly coding if no one else is.  I have little free time, and
even less with physical access to the box, so it would be difficult.  I
have some C experience, and x86 assembly.  This HP arch is completely new
to me, however, and I have never tried kernel development.


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Re: [parisc-linux] X on J5000

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:22:01PM -0800, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Chuck Slivkoff wrote:
> 
> > That would be a Visualize-FXe. It is completely different than any of
> > the supported devices.
> 
> Does this mean I don't get any X?  Maybe I could be of some help testing

correct. None of the FX card is supported at the moment, because there is
still no documenatation available. I tried to treat the framebuffer as
a 24bit non packed framebuffer, but that gives me some really odd looking
graphic. Looks like PDC sets it up to some special pixel writing mode,
because it only deals with 3 planes.

Thomas.

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