From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: X works somewhat on DFP with latest radeonfb.c From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "Kevin B. Hendricks" , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Daniel Berlin , ghannon@cspi.com In-Reply-To: <20011117160749.13478@smtp.wanadoo.fr> References: <20011117154533.UWKB21717.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> <20011117160749.13478@smtp.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 18 Nov 2001 00:17:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1006039050.4572.2.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 17:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >Thought you might like to know. I took a look at the XF410 > >radeon_driver.c and compared it to the latest versions of radeon_driver.c > >in XFreee86 CVS HEAD and they are quite different. > > > >CVS HEAD has a *lot* more support for DFP but since I had the radeonfb > >working on the DFP I thought what the hell, and started to try to use XF > >4.1.0 radeon_driver.c with only a few small tweaks (ignoring all of the > >Flat Panel code which is old and not-working in XF410) with the UseFBDev > >Option so all the DFP register stuff is handled by the radeonfb.c driver. > > > >X actually starts up with depths of 8 and depths of 24 (32bpp), and works > >but the colors are all wrong: too many pinks in the 8 bit version and > >seemingly random colors in the 24 depth. > > > >So I am going to try and play around with the pallette setting. > > Ask Ani for his patches. I think the engine must be properly configured > for big endian. With Option "UseFBDev", the framebuffer device is used for setting the palette. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/