Re: PROBLEM: atyfb - garbled screen - ATI XPERT@WORK AGP
FAVRE =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire?= (gregoire.favre@urbanet.ch)
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:52:19 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:35:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:25:21PM +0000, Eduard.Vopicka@vse.cz wrote:
> > > > > 1. atyfb - totally garbled screen on boot
> > > > > Video: ATI XPERT@WORK 8MB AGP.
> > > > > Motherboard: VA-503+ (VIA Apollo chipset)
> > > > > CPU: AMD K6 on 350 MHz
> > > > > The problem has beeen traced to atyfb support, e.g. if I remove
> > > > > the atyfb support from configuration and recompile, the resulting
> > > > > kernel works fine.
> > > >
> > > > According to what I read in the atyfb driver, the XPERT boards are not
> > > > supported. It seems to support many boards in the Mach64 family, but
> > > > not this board.
> > >
> > > AFAIK, the XPERT@WORK has a Mach64 GT-C aka RAGE PRO.
> >
> > I have a machine here with what I _think_ is an XPERT@Work and cat
> > /proc/pci reports:
> >
> > Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> > VGA compatible controller: ATI Mach64 GB (rev 92).
> > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
> > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe3000008].
> > I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
> > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000 [0xe2000000].
> >
> > The Mach64 GB is not mentioned in the atyfb driver. I must confess I
> > haven't tried it though, I'm just using the vgacon on that machine.
>
> Yes it is. The Mach64 GB is a Rage PRO incarnation:
>
> #define GB_CHIP_ID 0x4742 /* RAGE PRO, BGA, AGP 1x and 2x */
I have no more my ati xpert@play, but I had the similar problem till I add the option
video=atyfb to the kernel, maybe that's could help...
I wait for the aty128... (http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~atong/aty128/) if you are a good
programmer and would like to help...
Thanks,
Greg ICQ:16624071
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Gregoire Favre, Institut de Mathématique de l'Universite de Lausanne
+41216923573,+41763231357, http://www.unil.ch/ima/docs/Personnes/gfavre
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