From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" Cc: , Daniel Berlin , Subject: Re: X works somewhat on DFP with latest radeonfb.c Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:07:49 +0100 Message-Id: <20011117160749.13478@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20011117154533.UWKB21717.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> References: <20011117154533.UWKB21717.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Hi Ben, > >Thought you might like to know. I took a look at the XF410 >radeon_driver.c and compared it to the latest versions of radeon_driver.c >in XFreee86 CVS HEAD and they are quite different. > >CVS HEAD has a *lot* more support for DFP but since I had the radeonfb >working on the DFP I thought what the hell, and started to try to use XF >4.1.0 radeon_driver.c with only a few small tweaks (ignoring all of the >Flat Panel code which is old and not-working in XF410) with the UseFBDev >Option so all the DFP register stuff is handled by the radeonfb.c driver. > >X actually starts up with depths of 8 and depths of 24 (32bpp), and works >but the colors are all wrong: too many pinks in the 8 bit version and >seemingly random colors in the 24 depth. > >So I am going to try and play around with the pallette setting. Ask Ani for his patches. I think the engine must be properly configured for big endian. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/