Re: Framebuffer bug

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:44:44 -0500

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 04:42:38PM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Montreal Sun Feb 7 16:38:41 1999
>
> Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> wrote:
> > this is deep. What does X say while starting up? Are there any errors?
>
> No, X behaves normally. Here are the numbers:
>
> Without ATY:
>
> Text: 31.5kHz @71Hz
> X : 56.6kHz @71Hz
>
> With ATY:
>
> Text: 31.4kHz @60Hz (configurable with fbset)
> X : 47.2kHz @59Hz

with my modified atyfb, I get 84.8 Hz vertical, and in X, the same 71.5Hz.
No problems. The unmodified aty is set to do 60Hz vertical by default, but
it shouldnt matter to X.

>
>
> > I used to run the Mach64 server with atyfb with no problems. I just turned
> > off atyfb because of the freezes I reported.
>
> No freezes here. (X :1 from within X :0 works fine)

what's ur kernel? mine is 2.2.1.

-- arvind

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