I know Ben is busy somehow, but better send him the iBook ;)
Our UK people have XF4 running even with video=ofonly, so it seems no to
be impossible. But I have no access to the machine to see how it is
setup. Maybe I can get access to it, no idea.
Ben gave me a patch that only missed the correct
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Hadess wrote:
I just recompiled this very kernel, to try to get aty128fb to do something
useful... configure X. But instead, it falls back to offb and tells me that
my
Horizontal refresh rate is 120 kHz (yep, kHz), and my Vertical one 186 Hz...
No aty128fb lines in the
Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new
Mobility chip.
There's a problem with the iBook and his new mobility chip. The problem
is mostly in offb.c, which doesn't know about the OF name. (2.4 uses PCI
probing
Hadess wrote:
Hi, I hacked offb.c to get aty128fb to recognize the new chipset called
RageM3p1. I added line 449, a statement to use this name (sorry, no
patches, it's already very dodgy to use lynx on a webmail interface...). The
problem is that it doesn't show up more than 8bit colors. I
BTW I finally got around to put an XF86Config with my DRI binaries again...
Michel
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Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hadess wrote:
Hi, I hacked offb.c to get aty128fb to recognize the new chipset
called
RageM3p1. I added line 449, a statement to use this name (sorry, no
patches, it's already very dodgy to use lynx on a webmail
interface...). The
problem is
Hadess wrote:
I could get Xpmac and XFree4 (debs) with native
drivers to show up with 256 colors A bit more would be cool.
Even the deb X4 should work fine in all depths without Option UseFBDev.
I'm not using UseFBDev. I'm sorry, I feel that I'm always missing the spot
not
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hadess wrote:
I could get Xpmac and XFree4 (debs) with native
drivers to show up with 256 colors A bit more would be cool.
Even the deb X4 should work fine in all depths without Option
UseFBDev.
I'm not using UseFBDev. I'm sorry,
Hadess wrote:
So it might be 15/16/24/32 bpp (and according to xdpyinfo it is), but
the colors are all messed up. I can help giving any address range or
whatever might help you.
The FB penguin looks quite weird as well (looks as if Andy Warhol got
crazy on it)
Sounds like a
Quoting Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Hadess wrote:
Right now, I'm using boot to boot my computer. From the install doc
I sent:
setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot
you shouldn't have to do this..
Otherwise it booted MacOS, so yes, I had to do
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0200, Hadess wrote:
you shouldn't have to do this..
Otherwise it booted MacOS, so yes, I had to do this...
something is broken in your setup then, that should not happen.
probably the ybin your using is too old and the ofboot script lacks
the necessary
Hadess wrote:
5. This one's for Michel (BTW, thanks for the snapshot, I'll install
it in a couple of minutes, if my boss doesn't disturb me ;P):
Looks like I've forgotten to upload the XF86Config, I'll do it tonight.
I couldn't get the drm to compile in BenH's latest kernel
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hadess wrote:
5. This one's for Michel (BTW, thanks for the snapshot, I'll
install
it in a couple of minutes, if my boss doesn't disturb me ;P):
Looks like I've forgotten to upload the XF86Config, I'll do it
tonight.
I couldn't get
On Tue, Oct 10, Hadess wrote:
The only error:
(II) r128(0): initializing int10
(EE) r128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (4)
I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new
Mobility chip.
Doesn't work. I don't mind Frame-buffer not being accelerated, but I (would)
Olaf Hering wrote:
Edit your XF86Config and remove Option usefbdev. The r128 can be used
native. You can't use the plain cvs, either use the rpms at
penguinppc.org or the new dri stuff.
The debs from http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ should also work.
Thanks Olaf,
Michel
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Hadess wrote:
Right now, I'm using boot to boot my computer. From the install doc I sent:
setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot
you shouldn't have to do this..
Then I type boot, or reboot the 'puter, and off you go. Of course if ybin
does
some nasty
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:10:50AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
I think it is apple's attempt to make things look like there is no OF, and
the computer just boots MacOS. If you press CMD-OPT-OF and then type boot,
the output comes out.
yup, that is exactly what they are doing, they seem to be
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