Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:59:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: ATI Mach64 Kernel driver. |
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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
-- 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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