Re: radeonfb on pegasos powerpc motherboard and X endianess problem

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:54, Sven Luther wrote:

I finally have a working pegasos motherboard as well as a working kernel
with a 1.6 radeonfb. I have also installed Daniel Stone's X 4.3.0
debian/sid packages, and notice the following :

  1) radeonfb works fine in 8bpp and 32bpp but depth 15 and 16 only give
  me some very dark grey.

  2) when running X with the UseFBDev option the colors are bad, i guess
  it is an endianess problem. (with and without accel)

You want radeonfb from a recent benh kernel, anything else is more or
less broken.

  3) When running X without the UseFBDev option, the colors are good,
  but i get garbage when i return to the console. Not exactly garbage,
  at first it is ok, but when i enter a line or somehow pan the screen,
  the corruption start. Doing a vt switch and back redraws a clean
  screen.

Sounds like the radeon driver doesn't restore the framebuffer aperture
byte swapping correctly.


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