From: flar@pants.nu (Brad Boyer)
To: mlan@cpu.lu
Cc: bob@kunk.jriver.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: controlfb and X
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:05:45 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001107070546.08EF32B54A@marcus.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011062245.XAA00760@piglet.grunz.lu> from "Michel Lanners" at Nov 06, 2000 11:44:58 PM
Michel Lanners wrote:
>
>
> On 5 Nov, this message from Robert E Brose II echoed through cyberspace:
> > The problem is that the controlfb driver doesn't recognize more than
> > 2 megs of vram. This particular Mac 7500 has 4 megs installed which
> > works perfectly in MacOS.
>
> Strange. It should detect 4 meg in 2.2 kernels; but maybe not 2.4
> kernels.
>
There's been a long standing issue on detecting the full 4M on controlfb
that regularly pops up. I happen to have a 7600 with the video upgraded to
4M, so I've been interested in this as well. I've seen several patches
float over the list, and I don't think any of them actually worked for
everyone. I believe the conclusion was that control just didn't act the
same on every machine. I suspect that if you look back through the list
archives, you'll find lots of discussion on this topic.
Brad Boyer
flar@pants.nu
P.S.: Try the following search on lists.linuxppc.org in linuxppc-dev:
controlfb;patch;detect
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-07 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-06 3:27 controlfb and X Robert E Brose II
2000-11-06 22:44 ` Michel Lanners
2000-11-07 6:16 ` bob
2000-11-07 7:05 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
2000-11-07 17:59 ` bob
2000-11-07 19:47 ` Michel Lanners
2000-11-07 21:22 ` bob
2000-11-18 18:31 ` controlfb and X (fixed) Michel Lanners
2000-11-09 6:50 ` controlfb and X Michel Lanners
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