From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199903240643.AAA25012@wolfram.com> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: PB G3 Video (for the developers) In-reply-to: <199903240106.PAA30761@uhhepm.phys.hawaii.edu> References: <199903240106.PAA30761@uhhepm.phys.hawaii.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:43:55 -0600 From: Brian Downing Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- ** Brian Downing ** UNIX Systems Administrator ** bdowning@wolfram.com [[ 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. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]