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From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Xorg on Fujitsu "Lime" with MPC5200b?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:44:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100415094413.4d752de0@wker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC682DC.1050200@billgatliff.com>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:07:08 -0500
Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:

> Put simply, I have an MPC5200b platform with a Fujitsu "Lime" GDC, and
> I'm trying to run Debian squeeze's xorg on it.
> 
> Actually, I *have* Debian squeeze's xorg running on the platform just
> fine, with a 2.6.34-rc1 kernel (kernel.org).  Problem is, every single
> diagonal line is very blocky--- not smooth at all.  I used to think this
> was a problem with X's fonts, but now I don't think so because the mouse
> cursor's diagonal lines also look equally bad.
> 
> It's almost as if any time the platform tries to draw a diagonal line,
> truncation/rounding errors are causing it problems in figuring out which
> pixels to turn on and off.

On all PowerPC based boards with Lime (PPC440EPx, MPC85xx) I have seen so
far there is a similar problem with direct access to the frame buffer in
16-bit mode.

> A non-Linux kernel on this hardware, running a non-X GUI, seems to work
> fine so I think the hardware isn't the problem.

It is possible that this non-X GUI doesn't access the frame buffer directly
but only uses the accelerated driver for rendering. In this case all
drawing is done by Lime itself triggered by 32-bit accesses to the
drawing command FIFO.

> Anyone have any suggestions on where to start with this one?  Anyone
> else running a similar configuration with any success?  I'm completely
> lost, and running out of hair *fast*...

You probably have to fix Xorg driver for swapping.

Anatolij

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-15  3:07 Xorg on Fujitsu "Lime" with MPC5200b? Bill Gatliff
2010-04-15  4:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-15  7:21 ` Roman Fietze
2010-04-15 13:01   ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-15 13:53     ` Roman Fietze
     [not found]       ` <v2ma0706c7b1004150906p34b853a0r80e2bb751e034b97@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-15 16:07         ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-16  6:14           ` Roman Fietze
2010-04-16  8:30             ` Michel Dänzer
2010-04-15 20:14       ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-16  5:48         ` Roman Fietze
2010-04-16  2:51       ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-16  8:28         ` Roman Fietze
2010-04-16  9:25       ` Gabriel Paubert
2010-04-15  7:44 ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]

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