From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000315112234.24452.qmail@web107.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:22:34 -0800 (PST) From: Michel Danzer Reply-To: michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch Subject: Re: patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to workonppcwithr128 To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Alan Hourihane , Kostas Gewrgiou , "Kevin B. Hendricks" , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --- Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > I'll get back to poking around in there as soon as I can figure out how > > > to see the kernel messages (i.e. how to switch back to the text console > > > fast enough, or never let the X server switch to VT 7 in the first > > > place). > > > > A remote machine might be handy... > > That's what I'm using already. But the kernel messages that otherwise > appear on the text screen won't get redirected to a remote machine. > Nothing ever ends up in the syslog, anyway. I guess the klogd/syslogd > combo is too slow in this case. Can't you use kgdb? > > BTW I've just discovered that the fbdev driver sets the weight explicitly > > to {0,0,0}... now I'm (really ;) confused. > > So was I. Wonder what the intention and effect(s) are. Alan? > > > I guess it all boils down to PCI messups. > > > > How do you come to this conclusion? Why should it influence ioctls? > > Because these ioctls will, ultimately, write to the card again? If the X > server actually messes with the PCI bridges, the card might no longer be > mapped? Can the X server mess with atyfb's mappings? > I admit that I understand next to nothing about PCI, or how the X server > uses PCI. Makes it a bit harder to spot the flaky code :-) Same goes for me :-/ > Anyway, the X server appears to complete screen init OK but I never > actually get to see the cross hatch pattern. Not very astonishing without the FBIOPUTSCREEN ioctl, is it? What _do_ you see if anything? Michel ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/