Re: lcd17 kernel patches?

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:

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R Shapiro wrote:

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Olaf Hering writes:
 > The correct fix is either "video=1280x1024-8@60" as kernel arg (that
 > may work)

OK, I just had time to rebuild 2.4.8-pre3-ben0 with the patch undone.
This video arg with that kernel doesn't solve the problem.  I still
get no video on boot.

Wouldn't it have to be video=aty128fb:1280x1024-8@60 anyway, and is the
modedb

video=mode specifies the global mode, for all fbdevs that use modedb.

Ah, cool. So what's your theory on why it didn't work for R?

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even used on PPC yet?

That's not the right question :-) Modedb doesn't depend on the architecture,
but on the driver.

I meant to say 'in aty128fb on PPC'. Last time I looked, the call to find a
mode was disabled for PPC.

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PowerMac/CHRP has even extra modedb support in macmodes.

Would that explain the disabled direct call?

If it calls mac_fb_find_mode() instead, that's fine, since it falls back to
fb_find_mode() if the mode name doesn't match mac*.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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