From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:59:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Olaf Hering cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Patch: PCI resource fixup for atyfb (was: Re: xf 4.0.1 + ati driver with rage II/rage pro) In-Reply-To: <20001001224427.A18368@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Olaf Hering wrote: > while we are about to improve the atyfb, is it possible to fix the color > depth switching? > When I boot without a kernel arg I end up with 8 bit at console. I can't > increase the color depth afterwards with fbset, and mol crashes when it > tries to do that. When I specify atyfb:cmode:24 everythings works fine > and I can switch down to 8 and back to 24 and mol starts fine. Does it also crash when you increase the color depth with fbset? I don't use MOL (I don't have MacOS), but I never saw this problem. 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/