From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39D47072.2CC1E9A6@student.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:35:30 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Costabel , 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> <39CE286A.E63425A6@student.ethz.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michel Dänzer 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. This warning should be obsolete now, I've updated the tarball and for those who like to build themselves I've also put up a diff: http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/X-fbdev.diff.gz Please test and let me know how it works, if noone complains I'll submit it to XFree86. 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/