Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:25:25 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [FBDEV BK] Updates and fixes. |
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> > ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) > > This is a r128 based chip, which lacks some of the proper support for > LCD stuff (especially automatic retreival of the EDID from BIOS) that > we have in radeonfb. If you feed the driver with a suitable mode, it > should work
Oh. A Rage 128 chip with a LCD display. Then you are out of luck right now.
> I haven't yet checked which codebase is in there for rivafb, I have > started collecting various patches around & doing my own fixes, I have > a version here that works on PPC with GeForce2 & 4, though I still > have problems with accel on the GeForce4. It's a 2.4 code base right > now, I haven't had time to clean that up and release a patch though. > > If 2.5 still has the old codebase, then GeForce4 isn't properly > supported yet.
We it sort of is old but yet new. I did port alot of the code from 2.4.X. to the latest tree. I haven't ported "thee" latest patches tho.
> Note that if you have a flat panel, then the problem of properly > retreiving the EDID to get a suitable default mode is also present > there, unless James added some support for it.
It there but only for PPC platforms. Hopefully with the new fbmon.c code I will be able to have this work on ix86 very soon.
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