Re: radeonfb on pegasos powerpc motherboard and X endianess problem

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:02:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:27:23PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 13:58, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Ok, so it must be another kind of problems, but then, my matrox board,
> > > > which Geert (or someone else) said did run on his chrp board, did not
> > > > work well for me.
> 
> Not me, as I don't have any Matrox cards (just S3 and Mach64 GT).
> 
> > > Could be a problem with how the firmware did/did not initialize it
> > 
> > Actually, the OF has a x86 emulator which runs the x86 bios of the
> > graphic card. 
> 
> Aha, so you get VGA text mode on bootup instead of linear graphics?

Yep, Ralph (who wrote the OF or something such) is telling me that the
linear fb apperture doesn't fit in the vga aperture or something such,
and that graphic mode would need vesa 3.x cards.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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