From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Need a Linux PPC kernel which supports the Radeon Mobility 9600 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jens Schmalzing Cc: linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: References: <1065823660.601.0.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1065953260.992.11.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:07:41 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/