From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from romano (romano-nyswri.cfe.cornell.edu [132.236.139.186]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE7B4829 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:47:40 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] RTC and FB on 735/125 From: Steve Pacenka To: Yves Bodack Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <003001c26327$d0db42e0$1f96078d@acid> References: <03ab01c26266$2416dea0$1f96078d@acid><20020922220323.0113cbca.varenet@esiee. fr><03bf01c2627c$9a5147c0$1f96078d@acid> <03ed01c26280$4dfb5c90$1f96078d@acid> <1032793227.1848.222.camel@romano> <003001c26327$d0db42e0$1f96078d@acid> Content-Type: text/plain Date: 23 Sep 2002 14:46:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1032806776.2868.19.camel@romano> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:36, Yves Bodack wrote: > hi steve, > great, this did the trick. thank's a lot. it's quite slow, but it works in > true color :) Yves, It's faster than the Macintosh Quadra 610 (another Linux victim) that I'm typing on now :^) . Could you please post your experience at getting X applications to work now that you have X and a desktop? I got basic gnome things to work flawlessly, but failed on my 735/99 with xmms, xemacs, and galeon or mozilla. The CRX24 framebuffer also works at 8 bit color, a bit faster. A minor patch to one file in the kernel is needed (duplicating a few lines that apply to another card's depth selection in the same file) and a kernel boot argument is needed to (optionally) cause the kernel to start video in 8 bit mode instead of the default 32. The hard drive I patched this on is recycled into another type of box, but Helge Deller can guess what's needed just from this description. -- regards, SP > > greetings yves... > > > From: "Steve Pacenka" > Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] RTC and FB on 735/125 > > > > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 17:37, Yves Bodack wrote: > > > replying to myself ... > > > > > > > and with 8 bpp it says: > > > > > > > > (EE) FBDev(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "Default > Screen" > > > for > > > > depth/fbbpp 24/24 > > > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > > > Fatal server error: > > > > no screens found > > > > > > same with 16 or 32 bpp :( > > > > > > Try the following in XF86Config-4 > > > > Section Screen > > ... (whatever else you need here) ... > > > > DefaultDepth 24 > > DefaultFbBpp 32 > > > > SubSection Display > > Depth 24 > > Modes "1280x1024" > > EndSubSection > > > > EndSection > > > > -- SP > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux > >