From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264034AbTDOTNj (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:13:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264036AbTDOTNj (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:13:39 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:39430 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264034AbTDOTNh (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:13:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:25:25 +0100 (BST) From: James Simmons To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel mailing list , Linux Fbdev development list Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [FBDEV BK] Updates and fixes. In-Reply-To: <1050310411.5574.44.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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.