From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199909131813.UAA00324@piglet.cpu.lu> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:13:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Re: controlfb.c bug in VRAM bank2 check if bank1 To: ldl@chpc.utah.edu cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <37DBDBB6.4B608A42@chpc.utah.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 12 Sep, this message from Lou Langholtz echoed through cyberspace: > If I had a spare PowerMac 7500 I'd love to test every combo and see what gets > detected where. Unfortunately I don't, but hope someone else can do this > instead and get conclusive info that we need. It concerns me too that people > with 8500's (that seem to have the same graphics card) seem to observe > different behavior in detection. Yeah; might prove interesting to compare the results on a 7500 with those on a 8500... > What version of controlfb are you using? Current from the 2.2 kernel tree, > 2.3 kernel tree, or 2.2 or 2.3 from vger, or even somewhere else. 2.2.12 > wouldn't detect all 4MB VRAM in my 7500 box. I'm sorry but I haven't kept up > very well with all the different distributions of source. Let me know which > release then you use and I'll eagerely check it out ;-) Hmm... official 2.2.12 does detect my 4 MB... and this is a 7600, so the same motherboard as the 7500... Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/