From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: atyfb and radeonfb Date: 13 Nov 2002 00:09:44 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1037142584.2774.230.camel@zion> References: <3DCBD804.8050109@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from amarseille-201-1-2-234.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.253.217.234] helo=zion.wanadoo.fr) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18Bk9x-0000bE-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:09:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3DCBD804.8050109@ntlworld.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Steven Newbury Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:28, Steven Newbury wrote: > Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? > When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a > black screen. I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain > it should be SGRAM. The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just > works. Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain this driver, any help implementing the missing features would be nice ;) > I have also noticed that the radeonfb driver lacks support for > initialising the card if the BIOS hasn't already done it. I have > recently changed from a matrox setup where the matroxfb driver would > initialise any matrox cards found irrespective of whether the BIOS > decided to do it unless it was told not to. Is there any chance that > this functionality is going to be added to the radeonfb driver? In > 2.5/6 perhaps? If you can get ATI to provide POST code for every single ASIC rev. out there, that may be a good start. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html