Hello Guys!
I tried to get my notebook running with a framebuffer device,but
after hours trying around I got only vesa-fb running.
Which is in fact nice, but _slow_.
I tried to use aty128fb and atyfb with Linux 2.4.19 and 2.5.47-50.
I never achieved something 'displayable'.
Can you tell me,
a) is my chipset compatible with the atyfb/aty128fb driver ?
b) what todo exactly to get it working ?
(i know howto compile kernel, patch around code,...
what I need are informations, whether
append="video=aty128fb:accel,<640x480@8bpp>"
or
append="video=atyfb:<800x600-16bpp>"
are correct, whether to pass vga= options to the kernel
is senseful and so on...)
If possible I would like to use the 1024x768x24 framebuffer device,
perhaps loadable via module.
My chipset:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64)
Please tell me whether I should sent more informations or if you
need to see .config and so on.
Sincerly,
Nico
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Nico Schottelius wrote:
I tried to get my notebook running with a framebuffer device,but
after hours trying around I got only vesa-fb running.
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64)
You may want to try the atyfb patches from Daniël Mantione
[off-list ref],
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Can you tell me,
a) is my chipset compatible with the atyfb/aty128fb driver ?
atyfb
b) what todo exactly to get it working ?
(i know howto compile kernel, patch around code,...
what I need are informations, whether
append="video=aty128fb:accel,<640x480@8bpp>"
or
append="video=atyfb:<800x600-16bpp>"
are correct, whether to pass vga= options to the kernel
is senseful and so on...)
Can you try my patch at
http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
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You may want to try the atyfb patches from Daniël Mantione
[off-list ref],
O!!! I like to havbe those as well.
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