Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:19:47 +0100 | From | Jurriaan on Alpha <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] tdfx ported to new fbdev api |
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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:08:47PM +0100 > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:00:04PM -0800, James Simmons wrote: > > > > The patch is against 2.5.5-dj2 > > > > http://www.transvirtual.com/~jsimmons/tdfx.diff > > > Is this one different to the one I saw last time? > > Actually no. I think the driver hasn't changed. I does work for me. Did > > you try it out again. > > Ok. I didn't look too deeply last time, but it died immediately > on switching the display, and was really dead, no keyboard leds, > nada. > That was my experience also (Voodoo 4500 pci/Alpha architecture). However, the VIDCFG_2X handling in his patch worked, and the kernel (pre-2.4.18) didn't. Luckily, a small patch was accepted to change that.
I'm willing to test any patches for tdfxfb on Alpha.
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