From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:09:08 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Subject: Re: dual head r128 To: Josh Huber Cc: Linux/PowerPC Devel List Message-id: <39E4BAD4.E78B4E3B@student.ethz.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 References: <20001011141722.A1437@missioncriticallinux.com> <39E4B4D0.FA62D929@student.ethz.ch> <20001011145249.B1437@missioncriticallinux.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Josh Huber wrote: > > Have you built X yourself? If yes, you need patches from Ani Joshi. The > > memory and clock values it probes are obviously bogus. > > > Wait a minute, I see you are using debs, which should contain Ani's stuff. > > Does aty128fb work on the second card? If yes, try Option "UseFBDev". > > Yeah, I'm using the debs, but it looks like the latest xserver-xfree86 > ppc packages are still at phase2v5, while the other packages are up to > phase2v15. Perhaps the code is just a little too old? I guess it's because Branden doesn't build the powerpc debs himself or Ani's patches didn't apply cleanly anymore. > BTW, no...I don't have aty128fb working on the secondary head -- is > there some option to tell the driver to scan for all cards? does it > do this by default? I think you need to add a second video=aty128fb and/or video=map:000001 or similar. Oh, and while we're at it, maybe you also need the libfbdevhw.a from http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/X4-fbdev-test.tar.bz2 for the second head to work with fbdev. > The secondary card is a PC card, so it's not initialized by OF, but I > think the r128 fb driver does a proper initialization of the card, so > that shouldn't be the problem. AFAIK it may be a problem with 2.2 kernels (for aty128fb) though. > btw, I'm using the debian kernel that shipped with potato -- perhaps I > should try a newer one? ben's or a 2.4 kernel perhaps? That might be a good idea at any rate. 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/