From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Bill Fink , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor changes to control/imstt/platinum/valkyrie/atyfb Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:59:53 +0100 Message-Id: <20011202235953.3323@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >> Wasn't there a tool to fiddle and store the vmode/cmode stuff into NVRAM >> tho which would probably work with all of the other cards? > >nvvideo, which could set either a video-mode or a color-mode, but I >don't think the color-mode was the same thing as the cmode. I had to >use a color-mode of 3 IIRC (with a video-mode of 18) to get a decent >display on a 7200 at work (which had a platinum FB IIRC). Same problem, the information there is driver specific and the tool currently use a fix offset instead of properly handling the nvram device tree extension format (afaik). The cmode is also a driver specific thing and is equivalent to the MacOS driver "DepthMode" setting, which will map differently to bit depths depending on the MacOS driver you are dealing with. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/