From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: R128 Scaling. From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Adrian Cox Cc: Stefan Berndtsson , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20020416133220.782c956e.adrian@humboldt.co.uk> References: <878z7nuamf.fsf@hades.nocrew.org> <20020416133220.782c956e.adrian@humboldt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 16 Apr 2002 15:12:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1018962733.1590.2316.camel@tibook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:32, Adrian Cox wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2002 13:49:12 +0200 > Stefan Berndtsson wrote: > > > What is the status of the scaling registers for rage128? I saw a patch > > in the archive, that adds scaling capabilities for the framebuffer, > > and that seems to work reasonably well. > > I started looking at that a while ago, but didn't get very far. To get > much further (and also to tackle the VGA out problems) I probably need > the chip docs, but I haven't really pursued them. My one email asking to > become an X developer was ignored, and I don't know of any other way to > get the docs currently. You can apply for them with ATI directly, their developer relations program to be exact. > The scaling patches I worked on had a problem with display flickering. I could resolve that problem with custom modes I obtained in a way Kevin Hendricks posted here. > They also needed a general mechanism to get the physical panel size. Shouldn't be hard with Apple machines, and on x86 one can use the BIOS as seen in the X driver. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/