aty support

aty support

[Nico Schottelius]

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Hello Guys!

I tried to get my notebook running with a framebuffer device,but
after hours trying around I got only vesa-fb running.

Which is in fact nice, but _slow_.

I tried to use aty128fb and atyfb with Linux 2.4.19 and 2.5.47-50.
I never achieved something 'displayable'.

Can you tell me, 

   a) is my chipset compatible with the atyfb/aty128fb driver ?
   b) what todo exactly to get it working ?
   (i know howto compile kernel, patch around code,...
   what I need are informations, whether
   append="video=aty128fb:accel,<640x480@8bpp>"
   or 
   append="video=atyfb:<800x600-16bpp>"

   are correct, whether to pass vga= options to the kernel
   is senseful and so on...)


If possible I would like to use the 1024x768x24 framebuffer device,
perhaps loadable via module.

My chipset:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64)

Please tell me whether I should sent more informations or if you
need to see .config and so on.

Sincerly,

Nico

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Re: aty support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> I tried to get my notebook running with a framebuffer device,but
> after hours trying around I got only vesa-fb running.

    [...]

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
> 01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64)

You may want to try the atyfb patches from Daniël Mantione
<daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>,

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: aty support

[James Simmons]

> You may want to try the atyfb patches from Daniël Mantione
> <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>,

O!!! I like to havbe those as well.



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Re: aty support

[James Simmons]

> Can you tell me,
>
>    a) is my chipset compatible with the atyfb/aty128fb driver ?

atyfb

>    b) what todo exactly to get it working ?
>    (i know howto compile kernel, patch around code,...
>    what I need are informations, whether
>    append="video=aty128fb:accel,<640x480@8bpp>"
>    or
>    append="video=atyfb:<800x600-16bpp>"
>
>    are correct, whether to pass vga= options to the kernel
>    is senseful and so on...)

Can you try my patch at

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz




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