From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39CD3AA3.366F8634@student.ethz.ch> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 01:20:03 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: R Shapiro CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: xf 4.0.0/1 with rage II/rage pro -- should the ati driver work? References: <14796.42915.582391.766766@ipa.ne.mediaone.net> <39CCC5AB.C1C2E8B2@student.ethz.ch> <14796.52485.753924.552345@ipa.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: R Shapiro wrote: > > Michel Dänzer writes: > > > Specifics: with the ati driver selected, xf throws away my mode def, > > > since it thinks (incorrectly) that there isn't enough vram, > > > > Does it probe the correct amount of VRAM? Do you use Option "UseFBDev" ? > > The xf probe says 2MB, but in fact I have 4MB. The dmesg line says: > > atyfb: 3D RAGE PRO (PQFP, PCI) [0x4750 rev 0x7c] 4M SGRAM, 14.31818 > MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 75 Mhz MCLK Which looks good. I am confident that the xfree86-pmac rsync driver will probe that correctly using fbdev. > I tried both UseFBDev on and off. It didn't seem to make any > difference. Btw, which is correct setting if I'm not using the fbdev > driver? I don't think any version of the ati driver will work without "UseFBDev" on PPC yet, and you need atyfb for that. > > > and then quits since it can't find any valid modes. In both cases I'm > > > running 4.0.1 from Franz Sirl's linuxppc page. > > > > While we're at it, can you please send me the URL of those? > > ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/xf4/RPMS/ Thanks, I've forwarded this to the apus-user list. > Speaking of configs, I have a Device entry and a Screen entry for each > physical display but they're all sharing the same Monitor entry (all > three physical monitors are identical). It that likely to work? Don't know, if it doesn't work, just duplicate the Sections and give them different Identifiers. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/