From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jens Schmalzing <jens.schmalzing@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Need a Linux PPC kernel which supports the Radeon Mobility 9600
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:07:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065953260.992.11.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hhk77bv495.fsf@pygar.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 23:44, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > I just fixed that in my 2.6 and I'll backport to 2.4 soon
>
> I compiled the latest version of that tree in order to get radeonfb
> working on my 17" Powerbook. A few questions:
>
> 1. The resulting kernel is more than 30MB in size. Is this normal?
That's not normal, something must be wrong in your kernel build
> 2. The accelerated framebuffer has the right size, but flickers a lot.
> offb works fine.
What do you mean by "flickers" ? Can you send me the dmesg output ?
> 3. XFree86 from Debian/unstable doesn't work whatever I do, I presume
> something along the lines of 4.3.99 would be the appropriate
> version? If yes, from which source?
>
Yes, you need something more recent like Michel DRI snapshots
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-12 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-10 21:56 Need a Linux PPC kernel which supports the Radeon Mobility 9600 Ken Offer
2003-10-10 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-11 21:44 ` Jens Schmalzing
2003-10-12 10:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-10-12 11:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-10-12 12:18 ` Jens Schmalzing
2003-10-12 16:17 ` Dale Harris
2003-10-14 14:37 ` Ken Offer
2003-10-14 15:14 ` Jens Schmalzing
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-14 22:10 Ken Offer
2003-10-15 8:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-15 15:09 ` Ken Offer
2003-10-15 15:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 14:37 ` Ken Offer
2003-10-16 15:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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