color maps issues

    I think we should revisit the issue Kevin Hendricks brought up in
March since it still was a problem up until a week ago in the linuxppc
stable kernel anyway....Here was his old message...

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Hi,

I figured since the fbdev driver showed the same problem as the r128 driver,
that the mode switching problem must be in either aty128fb.c or xfree86 but not
in the r128 driver.

Okay so I found the bug.  It seems all through the r128 driver, crtc.pitch
values are set to the virtual x resolution  (vxres) / 8.  But in aty128fb.c in
the var_to_crtc routine the crtc.pitch is set to be just the xres / 8.

This is not a problem if xres == vxres.  Which is what happens when the
aty128fb.c starts up.  So for any one mode it defaults to being okay.

However, when doing mode switching via the Cntl-Alt-Keypad+- keys, xfree sets
vxres and vyres to be the same as the resolution of the largest mode  on that
line (so 1152x870 becomes my vxres, and vyres when 1152x870, 832x624, 1024x768
are all specified on the same line.

This results in a call to aty128fb_set-var which calls decode_var which calls
var_to_crtc. which gets the crtc.pitch wrong.

So my questions is as follows?

Who is wrong?  Should xfree shrink the vxres and vyres to match xres and yres
before calling set_var or should aty128fb.c var_to_crtc routine be fixed to use
vxres >> 3 instead of just xres >> 3?

If aty128fb.c needs to be fixed, here is a patch:

--- aty128fb.c.last     Sat Mar 18 23:04:24 2000
+++ aty128fb.c  Fri Mar 24 22:39:26 2000

@@ -794,8 +794,11 @@
     crtc->v_sync_strt_wid = v_sync_strt | (v_sync_wid << 16) |
                 (v_sync_pol << 23);

+#if 0
     crtc->pitch = xres >> 3;
-
+#else
+    crtc->pitch = vxres >> 3;
+#endif
     crtc->offset = 0;
     crtc->offset_cntl = 0;

But I am not sure if this makes sense alone.

What use is it to get a nice 832x624 hole into a display that is virtually
1152x870?!?  I can't get to any of the kde controls, panels, etc since they are
off the screen!  And it would be a pain to have to pan around looking for them
(especially since the ioctl for panning is on the "to do" list!).

So my feeling is that both are wrong.  We should shrink the virtual resolution
to match the physical resolution in xfree when mode switching and put the patch
in place in aty128fb.c

Comments?

Thanks,

Kevin


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Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology
Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario  N6A-3K7  CANADA
khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959

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I submitted the following patch to BenH for use in his test kernels...

--- drivers/video/aty128fb.c.prev       Sun Jul 30 22:04:24 2000
+++ drivers/video/aty128fb.c    Sun Jul 30 22:05:01 2000

@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@
     crtc->v_sync_strt_wid = v_sync_strt | (v_sync_wid << 16) |
                 (v_sync_pol << 23);

-    crtc->pitch = xres >> 3;
+    crtc->pitch = vxres >> 3;

     crtc->offset = 0;
     crtc->offset_cntl = 0;

that Kevin sent me last week. However after finding Kevin's original
message I think he final suggestion in it is right and we should have
a patch placed in aty128fb.c which shrinks the virtual resolution down
to match the physical resolution in xfree when mode switching.
                             Jack


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Jack Howarth wrote:

    I think we should revisit the issue Kevin Hendricks brought up in
March since it still was a problem up until a week ago in the linuxppc
stable kernel anyway....Here was his old message...

But Steffen Haeuser stated on the Xpert ML someone told him the problem was
fixed?

Okay so I found the bug.  It seems all through the r128 driver, crtc.pitch
values are set to the virtual x resolution  (vxres) / 8.  But in aty128fb.c
in the var_to_crtc routine the crtc.pitch is set to be just the xres / 8.

This is not a problem if xres == vxres.  Which is what happens when the
aty128fb.c starts up.  So for any one mode it defaults to being okay.

However, when doing mode switching via the Cntl-Alt-Keypad+- keys, xfree
sets vxres and vyres to be the same as the resolution of the largest mode
on that line (so 1152x870 becomes my vxres, and vyres when 1152x870,
832x624, 1024x768 are all specified on the same line.

This results in a call to aty128fb_set-var which calls decode_var which
calls var_to_crtc. which gets the crtc.pitch wrong.

So my questions is as follows?

Who is wrong?  Should xfree shrink the vxres and vyres to match xres and
yres before calling set_var or should aty128fb.c var_to_crtc routine be
fixed to use vxres >> 3 instead of just xres >> 3?

IMO aty128fb is definitely wrong. v{x,y}res never change in the X server - in
fact, the size of the X root window can't be changed legally, and these values
correspond to its size.

What use is it to get a nice 832x624 hole into a display that is virtually
1152x870?!?  I can't get to any of the kde controls, panels, etc since they
are off the screen!  And it would be a pain to have to pan around looking
for them (especially since the ioctl for panning is on the "to do" list!).

That's not the X server's problem.

It's still better to get a correct display where you can't reach certain parts
of the display instead of an incorrect display, isn't it? And then as soon as
panning is implemented, everything works fine.

And in the special case of games using full-screen modes, panning isn't even
needed...

I don't think that's possible without destroying the framebuffer contents.


Michel


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It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT.
______________________________________________________________________________
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

Jack Howarth wrote:

quoted

Who is wrong?  Should xfree shrink the vxres and vyres to match xres and
yres before calling set_var or should aty128fb.c var_to_crtc routine be
fixed to use vxres >> 3 instead of just xres >> 3?

IMO aty128fb is definitely wrong. v{x,y}res never change in the X server - in
fact, the size of the X root window can't be changed legally, and these values
correspond to its size.

Right.

quoted

So my feeling is that both are wrong.  We should shrink the virtual
resolution to match the physical resolution in xfree when mode switching and
put the patch in place in aty128fb.c
I submitted the following patch to BenH for use in his test kernels...

--- drivers/video/aty128fb.c.prev       Sun Jul 30 22:04:24 2000
+++ drivers/video/aty128fb.c    Sun Jul 30 22:05:01 2000

@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@
     crtc->v_sync_strt_wid = v_sync_strt | (v_sync_wid << 16) |
                 (v_sync_pol << 23);

-    crtc->pitch = xres >> 3;
+    crtc->pitch = vxres >> 3;

     crtc->offset = 0;
     crtc->offset_cntl = 0;

The patch looks OK to me.

quoted

that Kevin sent me last week. However after finding Kevin's original
message I think he final suggestion in it is right and we should have
a patch placed in aty128fb.c which shrinks the virtual resolution down
to match the physical resolution in xfree when mode switching.

I don't think that's possible without destroying the framebuffer contents.

Indeed. Besides, shrinking vxres is not allowed per the frame buffer device
API rules.

As the 'to do' list in aty128fb.c states, panning still has to be implemented.
Anyone with a patch?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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The patch looks OK to me.

When I checked last week, the version in bk 2.4 was already ok. I fixed
it in my 2.2 tree too. Time to merge some of my 2.2 stuffs to bk 2.2...

quoted

quoted

that Kevin sent me last week. However after finding Kevin's original
message I think he final suggestion in it is right and we should have
a patch placed in aty128fb.c which shrinks the virtual resolution down
to match the physical resolution in xfree when mode switching.

I don't think that's possible without destroying the framebuffer contents.

Indeed. Besides, shrinking vxres is not allowed per the frame buffer device
API rules.

As the 'to do' list in aty128fb.c states, panning still has to be

implemented.

Anyone with a patch?

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