Christoph Egger wrote:
> 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?
First I just typed "modprobe kgicon" and saw the error
"mtrr: base(0xe6000000) is not aligned on a size(0xfe0000) boundary"
No errors occur after calling "modprobe kgicon kgicon_mttr=0"
> > > 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?
"Multi-scanning at horizontal frequencies of 31.47kHz to 60.24kHz, vertical
frequencies of 56Hz to 75Hz"
> > > > 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...
So the monitor description should do for 640x480 ?!
Well, I'll also have a look at the sources myself ...
> LibGGIGL: Never heard something about it.
On Tue, 2000-05-16 8:24:53 Marcus Sundberg writes:
> However I already have a working LibGGIGL extension which integrates
> LibGGI with the OpenGL API, with HW acceleration. Currently it only
> supports using GLX on the X target, but it can easily be made to
> (transparently) support GLX, GGIMesa and Win32 OpenGL on their
> respective targets.
> And there is a patch from Andy, which lets it compile GGIMesa. Unfortunatly,
> the patch is still not merged.
Can someone make the patch available from the ftp-server ?
> > 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... ;-)
Damn sure !
Martin
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