atyfb and radeonfb
Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a black screen. I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain it should be SGRAM. The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just works.
I have also noticed that the radeonfb driver lacks support for initialising the card if the BIOS hasn't already done it. I have recently changed from a matrox setup where the matroxfb driver would initialise any matrox cards found irrespective of whether the BIOS decided to do it unless it was told not to. Is there any chance that this functionality is going to be added to the radeonfb driver? In 2.5/6 perhaps?
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SN> Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL?
I did run a sparc64 with builtin Rage XL for about a year (2.4.18 time), it worked fine. Don't remember the type of the RAM but it had 8M. At first I had a problem with pixel clock frequency - the kernel new a higer value for XL than the sparc64 implemented and so the description of XL in kernel driver got changed for lower clock. But I doubt this helps you :(
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Quoted 5 lines · Steven Newbury
Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a black screen. I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain it should be SGRAM. The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just works.
Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain this driver, any help implementing the missing features would be nice ;)
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I have also noticed that the radeonfb driver lacks support for initialising the card if the BIOS hasn't already done it. I have recently changed from a matrox setup where the matroxfb driver would initialise any matrox cards found irrespective of whether the BIOS decided to do it unless it was told not to. Is there any chance that this functionality is going to be added to the radeonfb driver? In 2.5/6 perhaps?
If you can get ATI to provide POST code for every single ASIC rev. out there, that may be a good start.
Ben.
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Quoted 5 lines · Steven Newbury
Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a black screen. I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain it should be SGRAM. The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just works.
Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain this driver, any help implementing the missing features would be nice ;)
Erhm, not really...
For RAGE XL support, you want to contact Steve Longerbeam <[email protected]>.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Quoted 11 lines · Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Quoted 3 lines · Steven Newbury
Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a black screen. I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain it should be SGRAM. The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just works.
Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain this driver, any help implementing the missing features would be nice ;)
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Erhm, not really...
For RAGE XL support, you want to contact Steve Longerbeam <[email protected]>.
I reverse-engineered ATI's video BIOS on the Xpert98 PCI card (RageXL) using a PCI bus analyzer. Got atyfb to work on embedded platforms and PC's that way. It could work with other RageXL-based cards with some tweaking. I'll give you the source if you're interested.
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