From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38D33510.7B31C928@iiic.ethz.ch> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:49:36 +0100 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James B. Parker" CC: LinuxPPC Developer Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.0 (mach stuff) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: "James B. Parker" wrote: > > I noticed plenty of people working on getting rage128 hardware working with > 4.0, so where is the support for earlier hardware (rage pro, rage ++, > whatever)? The ati driver is for them (although not very well accelerated yet), but I doubt it works on PPC yet due to the usual problems (endianness, endianness and endianness, ... :) Kostas Gewrgiou, me and maybe others are working on a general solution to make most drivers work with only minor changes or no changes at all. > I am sure not everyone running LinuxPPC has a rage 128 setup. > Or am I just missing something (like the same config file works for both)? No, the Rage128 uses the r128 driver. > If I knew what the heck to do with the 4.0 config file to get it working > with my ATI rage pro chip, I certainly would give it a try. > Any suggestions? Look at the XF86Config manpage, the format of the file has changed. Michel ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/