controlfb problem (on XFree86-4.0.1 off the penguinppc.org development tree)

Following up on message
http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200011/msg00346.html ,

I had a look through the linuxppc-dev mailing list, and found a few
patches to controlfb. I collected a few and made them fit in (from
messages in September).

XFree86-4.0.1 base: xfree86-pmac tree off penguinppc (today) on top of
stock 4.0.1 .

the result is that I get Xwin (yay!), if only in 15bpp (no big problem)
-- I get various error messages if I mod the XF86Config to pick up a
smaller screen area and nigher depth. (Maybe the problem is that an
1152x870 virtual framebuffer is always allocated?). In 8bpp, I get a
very wrong picture (too green, two images side by side on top half
...).

Anyway, enclosed the patches that - at least - made me see Xwin, on
2.2.18pre17-ben1 kernel straight off penguinppc.

Cheers

    Jens


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Hi all,

On  20 Nov, this message from Jens Tingleff echoed through cyberspace:

I had a look through the linuxppc-dev mailing list, and found a few
patches to controlfb. I collected a few and made them fit in (from
messages in September).

I see those are patches to XFree. I have no problem with controlfb,
running XFree 4.0.1 from fsirl's R5 RPMs on devel.linuxppc.org, with the
exception of the screen being displaced to the right (IIRC).

That problem I fixed for me with a patch you can find here:

http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/xf4.html

the result is that I get Xwin (yay!), if only in 15bpp (no big problem)

I only tried 1152 x 870 @ 32 bpp; that works perfectly fine for me...

Cheers

Michel

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