From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Bug#226973: xserver-xfree86: [glint] second card at wrong resolution Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:12:13 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040114211213.GB6573@iliana> References: <20040109163119.GA10151@scowler.net> <20040112121558.GA24511@iliana> <20040112215543.GB2150@scowler.net> <20040113074158.GF4863@iliana> <20040113154025.GA12817@scowler.net> <20040113160221.GA12752@iliana> <20040114210635.GA31286@scowler.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AgsJk-0000VC-Ke for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:12:48 -0800 Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.30] helo=mwinf0104.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AgsJk-0005Sg-59 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:12:48 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040114210635.GA31286@scowler.net> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Clint Adams Cc: Sven Luther , 226973@bugs.debian.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:06:35PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > Yep. It probably doesn't happen on x86, since the int10 stuff > > initializes the card with the onboard bios. Using a x86 emulator in X to > > run this bios might be a solution. > > According to Tech-Source, this card has no VGA bios.. Ok. An OF driver then ? > > Ho. definitively some registers who are bad. It has been a long time > > since i have looked at the pm2 specs (kind of 98ish i think) though. > > Maybe you could get hand of the free TI-pm2 specs and look for yourself ? > > I've been looking and not finding anything. you did not find the specs, or you didn't find anything ? > > You would dump all the possible registers, and see which one is > > different. Enabling debugging in the glint driver would also do. You can > > safely run no-accel on these for the tests, as this is definitively not > > an accel issue, but a video out/ramdac one. > > Attached is the XFree86.0.log from xserver-xfree86-dbg. I'll start it > again with noaccel. The only thing I notice is that it thinks the > second card only has 4 megs of video ram. Nope, this is not the right way, you have to rebuild the driver and add some code to drop the content of the registers somewhere. I don't have time right now, maybe later i will find time to send you a register dropping patch or something. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html