From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <19990130020006.A580@toocool.calpoly.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:00:06 -0800 From: "dhiltgen@toocool.calpoly.edu" To: mlan@cpu.lu, O.Waller@ee.qub.ac.uk Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: matroxfb, anybody? References: <199812172146.WAA00356@piglet.cpu.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199812172146.WAA00356@piglet.cpu.lu>; from Michel Lanners on Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 10:46:30PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Add me to the list of people playing with matroxfb and controlfb. Does anyone have some fbset outputs suitable for fb.modes for the matrox Mil I card? I'm having a heck of a time trying to change from the default mode. In Documentation/fb/matroxfb they talk about passing kernel parameters to set the modes, but whenever I do that the kernel panics before ever spitting anything out. I assume it's a "no bios" thing. I'm hoping someone with a Mac version of the card might already have the various timings etc that fbset wants, and that they'll be the same as the PC version. And the one other simple question... how in the heck do you tell XF68 which /dev/fb* to go to? Right now I'm moving the devices around by hand, but I'd eventually like to get a Dual headed X setup going. ...aside... I'm running an x86 Matrox card in my 8600, and it "sort of" works right now on 2.2.0. It appears that there are definitely some kernel bugs as far as mode switching, as sometimes control and matrox end up duplicating each other resulting in very funky displays. I had to hack the kernel slightly, in that it assumes if you have a Mac, well then you must have a Mac matrox card, and OF should take care of initialization. Nope, I've got a x86 card, and it has to be initialized by the kernel. Simple one line hack in the init function for matroxfb. Thanks for any input. -- Daniel Kerry Hiltgen Computer Science Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA dhiltgen@www.itslab.calpoly.edu http://www.itslab.calpoly.edu/~dhiltgen/ "In a world without fences who needs Gates?" 1997 JavaOne Conference [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]