ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

[Ani Joshi]

Since there have been many people asking about mach64 support int xfree
4.0 I figured I might as well give you all the status of the driver.

I am almost done with 'porting' the ATI driver to ppc and so far its
working quite well.  While I'm not completely finished with all the
acceleration, what is completed are:  ScreenToScreen blits, rect fills,
sold lines, and 8x8 mono pattern fills.

Unfortunately due to some binary driver incompatibilities between current
xfree86 cvs and Jack Howarth's 4.0-stock rpms, the driver seems to not
work with his rpms.  Luckily, the next xfree86 release is around the
corner so once that happens I will merge the driver and put up a
compatibile release.

For those interested in the driver's development, I will be placing info
and binary snapshots (xfree liscence prohibits me from releasing source),
at:

ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/ajoshi/xf4

Here you will find x11perf results comparison between the driver and
Xpmac, a bootlog of the driver, and some other various things i throw up
there.



ani


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Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

[Michel Dänzer]

[I 'forward' this to debian-powerpc as well]

Ani Joshi wrote:
>
> Since there have been many people asking about mach64 support int xfree
> 4.0 I figured I might as well give you all the status of the driver.
>
> I am almost done with 'porting' the ATI driver to ppc and so far its
> working quite well.  While I'm not completely finished with all the
> acceleration, what is completed are:  ScreenToScreen blits, rect fills,
> sold lines, and 8x8 mono pattern fills.

Sounds like the most important stuff is there :)


> Unfortunately due to some binary driver incompatibilities between current
> xfree86 cvs and Jack Howarth's 4.0-stock rpms, the driver seems to not
> work with his rpms.  Luckily, the next xfree86 release is around the
> corner so once that happens I will merge the driver and put up a
> compatibile release.

If you happen to have a 4.0b version of the driver (what version is the one in
your FTP dir?), I'd be happy to make it available for people to test with my
experimental tarballs.

Does the driver use/need FBDev? Does it need PCI patches on some machines?


> For those interested in the driver's development, I will be placing info
> and binary snapshots (xfree liscence prohibits me from releasing source),
> at:
>
> ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/ajoshi/xf4
>
> Here you will find x11perf results comparison between the driver and
> Xpmac, a bootlog of the driver, and some other various things i throw up
> there.
>
> ani


Michel


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0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS

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Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

[Ani Joshi]

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> If you happen to have a 4.0b version of the driver (what version is the one in
> your FTP dir?), I'd be happy to make it available for people to test with my
> experimental tarballs.

The driver currently in my dir on devel is from a 4.0d tree.  You're free
to use it but with 4.01 release around the corner I was going to wait a
bit and slap it into howarth's rpms.

> Does the driver use/need FBDev?

Currently it requires FBDev because I was too lazy to set the modes
directly.  However, I will end up removing this requirement soon.


> Does it need PCI patches on some machines?

I don't know, I didn't have to apply any kernel patches for my machine.



ani


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Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

[Michael Schmitz]

> > Does it need PCI patches on some machines?
>
> I don't know, I didn't have to apply any kernel patches for my machine.

What kernel version do you run?

	Michael


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Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

[Ani Joshi]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> > I don't know, I didn't have to apply any kernel patches for my machine.
>
> What kernel version do you run?

2.3.99pre9, and occasionaly 2.2.4, both had no problems with fbdev nor ati
driver.


ani


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2.2.16 and G3

[Giuliano Pochini]

I can't make Linux working on my G3. I suppose the problem is
gfx-card related. Since there is no aty128 support I leave
unchanged the same config I had on my old Mac (controlfb) and
I boot with BootX and "no video...Idontremember" option set.
It boots fine but it panics at the first "ls" or so :((
Using the G3-kernel that come with linuxPPC-1999 all works
fine.
I definitely need a sample .config .... suggestions about
patch, etc. are also welcome.


Bye.
    Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation ->)|(<-


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Re: 2.2.16 and G3

[Giuliano Pochini]

> I can't make Linux working on my G3. I suppose the problem is
> gfx-card related. Since there is no aty128 support I leave
> unchanged the same config I had on my old Mac (controlfb) and
> I boot with BootX and "no video...Idontremember" option set.
> It boots fine but it panics at the first "ls" or so :((

I discovered why it crashes... it's the buggy USB support.

Bye.

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