* XFree86-4.0 Status?
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@ 2000-06-03 5:57 ` David L. Thompson
2000-06-03 8:50 ` Michel Dänzer
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From: David L. Thompson @ 2000-06-03 5:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
I was wondering if anybody could comment on the status of
XFree86-4.0. I tried installing this on a PowerBook G3/250 and have
had no luck. I've seen just a few posts in regards to "support isn't
there yet" so I was wondering if anybody could comment.
Thanks,
David
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2000-06-03 5:57 ` XFree86-4.0 Status? David L. Thompson
@ 2000-06-03 8:50 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-06-06 20:05 ` Michael Schmitz
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From: Michel Dänzer @ 2000-06-03 8:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David L. Thompson; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
"David L. Thompson" wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anybody could comment on the status of
> XFree86-4.0. I tried installing this on a PowerBook G3/250 and have
> had no luck. I've seen just a few posts in regards to "support isn't
> there yet" so I was wondering if anybody could comment.
I suppose that's Mach64 hardware, so you have to use the fbdev driver _and_ a
patched kernel to correct broken OF PCI memory mappings.
Ask Michael Schmitz :)
Michel
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* Re: XFree86-4.0 Status?
2000-06-03 8:50 ` Michel Dänzer
@ 2000-06-06 20:05 ` Michael Schmitz
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From: Michael Schmitz @ 2000-06-06 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michel Dänzer; +Cc: David L. Thompson, linuxppc-dev
> > I was wondering if anybody could comment on the status of
> > XFree86-4.0. I tried installing this on a PowerBook G3/250 and have
> > had no luck. I've seen just a few posts in regards to "support isn't
> > there yet" so I was wondering if anybody could comment.
>
> I suppose that's Mach64 hardware, so you have to use the fbdev driver _and_ a
> patched kernel to correct broken OF PCI memory mappings.
>
> Ask Michael Schmitz :)
I haven't tried it on that machine but if it's a Mach64 chipset there will
likely be a PCI resource collision between VRAM and MMIO space. I had to
patch both 2.3.99pre7 and 2.2.15 to make it work. For 2.3.x, Geert's old
PCI resource patch did fine, reassignment for 2.2.15 is a bad hack likely
to break on other machines (I just guessed a free PCI address range
instead of walking the resource tree).
Michael
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