On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Maybe you two
> > would like to sort that out.
> > Do other resolutions work ?
>
> To be a bit more precise: The position of the picture depends on the
> mode. The vertical position is okay but for some resolutions, e.g.
> 800x600, the left edge is about in the middle of the screen.
> The maintainer of the riva driver should be Jon Tayler according to the
> kgi-project at sourceforge.
AFAIK the nvidia driver is just a (working) framework.
> > > 3) Again those mysterious errors
> > > "mtrr: base(0xe6000000) is not aligned on a size(0xfe0000)
> > > boundary" (by the way that message was reported by at least one >
> > > other user in the past)
> >
> > Did you try the kgi_mtrr parameter ?
>
> Oh, I'm sorry. No more errors now.
What did you do before?
> > If not, your monitor description probably doesn't allow it, which
> > would also explain problems with other consoles, as they still are in
> > 640x480, which will cause unpredictable results, if that mode ceases
> > to work.
>
> Three cheers for miro and their monitor specs in the user's guide !
> Hmm, still I don't see why 640x480 shouldn't be possible with my
> settings. Here is my kgicon.mon (without the timings):
>
> /dev/fb0:
> Miro
> PTLA150
> GM_ALL
> FL_MON_NORMAL
> 1024x768
> 300x225
> COLOR_LCD
> SYNC_SEPARATE | SYNC_COMPOSITE | SYNC_MULTISYNC
> 0-200000000
> 31470-60240 // already tried 0-60240
> 56-75
And what does your monitor manual say?
> > > demos/cube3d
> > > LibGGI: Failed to set mode: 640x480.V640x480.F2.D1x1 [P8/8]
> >
> > I suppose that worked before the change ? (i.e. when fbdev was in
> > 640x480 anyway) ?
>
> No it's because even fbset -g 640 480 640 480 8 doesn't work !
Seems to me, that Jon hasn't any 8bit-mode implemented yet.
If I am wrong, then there must be a bug...
> > > P.S.: Silence about LibGGIGL / XGGI ?
> >
> > What about them ?
>
> LibGGIGL: Can't find it! It sounded like it could replace GGIMesa which
> doesn't compile from the Mesa-tarballs and has un ugly
> doublebuffer-implementation.
LibGGIGL: Never heard something about it.
And there is a patch from Andy, which lets it compile GGIMesa. Unfortunatly,
the patch is still not merged.
> XGGI: Just wanted to know whether there is still active developement.
Well, it seems to me, that all XGGI-stuff is now done by Steffen.
> Andy: Thank's a lot for your help! Maybe I should write a section of
> (F)AQs after this is all done ?
Yes. That would be nice. You are not the first person, who has some
questions/problems like yours. And I am sure, that you are _not_ the last
one... ;-)
Christoph Egger
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