From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [FBDEV BK] Updates and fixes.
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:25:25 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304152022550.8236-100000@phoenix.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050310411.5574.44.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>
> > ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)
>
> This is a r128 based chip, which lacks some of the proper support for
> LCD stuff (especially automatic retreival of the EDID from BIOS) that
> we have in radeonfb. If you feed the driver with a suitable mode, it
> should work
Oh. A Rage 128 chip with a LCD display. Then you are out of luck right
now.
> I haven't yet checked which codebase is in there for rivafb, I have
> started collecting various patches around & doing my own fixes, I have
> a version here that works on PPC with GeForce2 & 4, though I still
> have problems with accel on the GeForce4. It's a 2.4 code base right
> now, I haven't had time to clean that up and release a patch though.
>
> If 2.5 still has the old codebase, then GeForce4 isn't properly
> supported yet.
We it sort of is old but yet new. I did port alot of the code from 2.4.X.
to the latest tree. I haven't ported "thee" latest patches tho.
> Note that if you have a flat panel, then the problem of properly
> retreiving the EDID to get a suitable default mode is also present
> there, unless James added some support for it.
It there but only for PPC platforms. Hopefully with the new fbmon.c code I
will be able to have this work on ix86 very soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-15 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 4:47 [FBDEV BK] Updates and fixes James Simmons
2003-04-14 7:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-14 8:53 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-15 19:25 ` James Simmons [this message]
2003-04-15 19:21 ` James Simmons
2003-04-15 20:04 ` Andreas Henriksson
2003-04-16 6:20 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-15 19:49 ` James Simmons
2003-04-23 16:32 ` Pavel Machek
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