Re: Twister savagefb doesn't sync

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Vassilis Virvilis wrote:
>> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>>
>>> If you can somehow dump the registers of the working and non-working
>>> mode,
>>> we might be able find a pattern.
>>>
>>> If you don't know how to dump the register contents, let me know and I'll
>>> send you a userspace utility to do that.
>>>
>>>
>> I found dumpreg from the svgalib distribution (svgalib-bin in debian).
>> Is this
>> sufficient? 
> 
> It might not be sufficient as it won't be able to recognize savage extended
> VGA registers.
> 
>> If not could you please send me the userspace utility you
>> mentioned
>> the other day?
>>
> 
> Ok, attached, it's a quick hack. Before using it open the file savagedump.c 
> and look for the following defines:
> 
> #define PCI_ID        0x8d04  /* put the PCI id of the device here */
> #define PCI_PBASE     0xdfe80000  /* put the start address of the PCI resource here */
> 
> and replace the above values with your own. First do "lspci -n | grep "Class 0300"
> and you'll get something like this:
> 
> 01:00.0 Class 0300: 5333:8d04
> 
> Use the last 4 digit ID for the PCI_ID (ie 8d04):
> 
> Then do lspci -v -n 5333:8d04 (using instead the vendor:device that you got) and you

Typo.  I meant

lspci -v -d 5333:8d04

Tony


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