Re: ATI Mach64 Kernel driver.
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:59:56 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Kris Karas wrote:
> > > > From reading all those reports about the driver, it looks like ioremap()
> > > > behaves different on ia32 than on PPC and SPARC64...
> > >
> > > As a positive note to all the failures, atyfb works fine for me. :-)
> > > XPERT-98, 8MB, AGP, on BX-chipset MB, dual-PII/SMP kernel.
> >
> > Fine!
> >
> > > Now if I only had a way to make it come up in 1280x1024x24@80Hz
> > > instead of 640x480x8@60. :-(
> >
> > You can use `fbset -a' to change the resolution for all VCs at once.
> >
> > But yes, there should be a shared video mode database (__init of course) with
> > some standard video modes, like there's already for the Mac.
>
> Or just a kernel parameter that you can feed with the video
> timings (as I believe has the matrox fb - just grepped through
> the source...).
Yes, of course. A kernel parameter to choose a mode from the shared video mode
database. It doesn't make much sense to keep multiple similar databases in all
frame buffer devices.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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