From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Adrian Cox Cc: , Subject: Re: Scaling registers on r128 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:16:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20011112131650.6754@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> In-Reply-To: <3BEF952D.9000306@humboldt.co.uk> References: <3BEF952D.9000306@humboldt.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >This patch to aty128fb is experimental, and intended for the brave. > >The attached patch turns on the panel scaling registers of the R128. >I've run this on my iBook2, and I've been able to display 640x480 and >800x600 modes on the panel successfully. > >The panel sizes are currently hardwired on the iBook. This code will >benefit greatly from a reliable means to find the panel size. > >This has revealed problems in the X server: if the XF86Config-4 >specifies 800x600 and the current console is in 1024x768, the display is >broken. This looks like a generic problem in fbdevhw based Xservers, as >I saw something similar on 69030. great. I'm working on some way to probe the panel type on those machines as it doesn't seem to follow any standard. Once don Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/