Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:18:31 -0800 (PST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: atyfb in 2.5.51 |
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> AFAIK, the X "mach64" driver in XF 4.* doesn't care about UseFBDev. > Marc Aurele La France (maintainer of this driver) is basically allergic > to kernel fbdev support.
:-(
> I don't know if happened with earlier fbdev versions for you, but one > possibility is that X reconfigures the display base, and possibly more > bits of the card's internal memory map. Either fbdev should restore > that, or adapt to what X set. On R128's and radeon's, this is things > like DISPLAY_BASE_ADDR.
I will have to go threw the X code to fix that :-(
> > I have also tried aty128fb with some local patches to get it to > > compile for my G4 powerbook. It also doesn't draw the penguin, and it > > oopses when X starts, for some reason. > > Hrm... I'll have to test radeonfb... It worked yesteday in console (I > don't remember about the penguin) but I didn't try X.
No penguin. That is weird. I get the penguin on my ix86 box.
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