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From: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Steven Newbury <steven.newbury1@ntlworld.com>,
	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: atyfb and radeonfb
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:56:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDC2F30.6040709@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.21.0211141209250.8876-100000@vervain.sonytel.be

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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>On 13 Nov 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>  
>
>>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 ;)
>>    
>>
>
>Erhm, not really...
>
>For RAGE XL support, you want to contact Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>.
>

I reverse-engineered ATI's video BIOS on the Xpert98 PCI card (RageXL) using
a PCI bus analyzer. Got atyfb to work on embedded platforms and PC's 
that way.
It could work with other RageXL-based cards with some tweaking. I'll 
give you the
source if you're interested.

-- 
Steve Longerbeam
MontaVista Software, Inc.
office:408-328-9008, fax:408-328-3875
http://www.mvista.com



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      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-21  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-08 15:28 atyfb and radeonfb Steven Newbury
2002-11-11  9:16 ` Meelis Roos
2002-11-12 23:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-11-14 11:09   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-21  0:56     ` Steve Longerbeam [this message]

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