From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39CE286A.E63425A6@student.ethz.ch> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:14:34 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Costabel CC: mlan@cpu.lu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: xf 4.0.0/1 with rage II/rage pro -- should the ati driver work? References: <200009231708.TAA00731@piglet.grunz.lu> <39CE0203.FA1205E9@student.ethz.ch> <39CE25AF.E29D265F@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Martin Costabel wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > Michel Lanners wrote: > [] > > > Because I'm experiencing this as well with fbdev, and the problem is the > > > same for all Apple non-accelerated framebuffers (control, platinum, > > > valkyrie), AFAICT. So it would be helpful if this problem would get > > For what it's worth: I have *no* problem with Franz's 4.0.1 RPMs and a > valkyrie display. It works for 8 bit color without and for 15 bit color > with a modeline in XFConfig. It doesn't work for 16 bit color (and more > than that is out of reach for valkyrie with 1MB VRAM). The X 4 fbdev code used to pass the depth incorrectly in the PUTSCREENINFO ioctl. I have a fix for that too and will submit it with the rest. > > > fixed once and for all. FWIW, no propblem with XF3.x. > > > > That's why I'm working with Geert, who wrote the 3.x code :) > > > > I'm currently having problems with the MMIO mapping of his code, will > > investigate. The Vidmem mapping works for me (although it also worked > > before), so any volunteers for testing please line up to me for a patch :) > > I'd volunteer if you provide a precompiled server binary. For compiling > XFree86 myself, my machine is too slow. All you'd need to update would be the libfbdevhw.a and fbdev_drv.o modules. I think I'll put them up RSN at http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/X4-fbdev-test.tar.bz2 Beware: DON'T use this with an accelerated driver right now. 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/