From: "Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
To: Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Scaling registers on r128
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:36:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF040CD.560358DB@iiic.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BEF952D.9000306@humboldt.co.uk
Adrian Cox wrote:
>
> This patch to aty128fb is experimental, and intended for the brave.
>
> The attached patch turns on the panel scaling registers of the R128.
> I've run this on my iBook2, and I've been able to display 640x480 and
> 800x600 modes on the panel successfully.
>
> The panel sizes are currently hardwired on the iBook. This code will
> benefit greatly from a reliable means to find the panel size.
>
> This has revealed problems in the X server: if the XF86Config-4
> specifies 800x600 and the current console is in 1024x768, the display
> is broken.
Does switching resolutions in X fix it again?
> This looks like a generic problem in fbdevhw based Xservers, as
> I saw something similar on 69030.
Yes, I suspect some fbdevHW functions return information about the
current console mode instead of the one the X server wants to set up.
I'm not sure how to fix, you seem to be working a lot with that code
recently so I expect you to find a way. :)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-12 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-12 9:23 Scaling registers on r128 Adrian Cox
2001-11-12 13:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-11-12 21:36 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2001-11-22 1:42 ` Michel Dänzer
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