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From: Brian Downing <bdowning@wolfram.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: PB G3 Video (for the developers)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:43:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903240643.AAA25012@wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903240106.PAA30761@uhhepm.phys.hawaii.edu>


On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:06:11 -1000 (HST), Dean Takemori writes:
 > [snip]
 > 
 > The rest of the post can be found at:
 > http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/199903/msg00209.html
 > 
 > For what it's worth, I hand patched a 2.2.4 kernel with the 
 > included patch, and got atyfb to work on my PB G3 series.
 > Finally.  I can actually scroll in nedit in real time now.

Same here.  X is fast now!

Interestingly enough, my video card (which reports the same version
as the post mentioned above) takes a 40 MHz mclk, not a 100 MHz one.
I also had to turn off backing-store in X - otherwise I got strange
graphical glitches (like the twm menu coming up blank until the options
were highlighted with the mouse).

-bcd
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**               Brian Downing
**  UNIX Systems Administrator
**        bdowning@wolfram.com

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-24  1:06 PB G3 Video (for the developers) Dean Takemori
1999-03-24  6:43 ` Brian Downing [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-15 23:12 abew
1999-03-16  8:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-03-16 18:00   ` abew

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