From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:43:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Michel Lanners cc: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch, reshapiro@mediaone.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: xf 4.0.0/1 with rage II/rage pro -- should the ati driver work? In-Reply-To: <200009231708.TAA00731@piglet.grunz.lu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 23 Sep, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > >> Also the screen is oddly "wrapped" on the rage II machine with the fbdev > >> driver: I can see the full screen but the virtual edge starts about 75% in, > >> instead of matching the physical edge, and then wraps around. I don't see > >> this artifact on the rage pro G3. > > > > This is a known problem, which is also kind of fixed in Ani's tree AFAIK. I'm > > currently working with Geert Uytterheuven to get the definite fix. > > Is this the already-known problem of handling an offset for the screen > start within the framebuffer memory? > > 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 > fixed once and for all. FWIW, no propblem with XF3.x. Should be fixed after applying the untested patch I sent to Michel D. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/