From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Longerbeam Subject: Re: atyfb and radeonfb Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:56:16 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3DDC2F30.6040709@mvista.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070206050100080903070406" Return-path: Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158] helo=av.mvista.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18Efdo-0002b4-00 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:56:24 -0800 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Steven Newbury , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development --------------070206050100080903070406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 . > 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 --------------070206050100080903070406 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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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