From: Kevin Puetz <puetzk@iastate.edu>
To: Kevin_Hendricks <khendricks@admin.ivey.uwo.ca>
Cc: mlan@cpu.lu, ldl@chpc.utah.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: controlfb.c bug in VRAM bank2 check if bank1
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:26:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11RKhj-0001UA-00@puetz.penguinpowered.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:05:10 EDT." <199909151707.MAA16408@lists.linuxppc.org>
khendricks@admin.ivey.uwo.ca said:
> Hi,
> Just to add fuel to the fire (although I am not sure if this is
> related or not)
> My B+W G3 rev2 with 16MB of vram has never ever detected the correct
> amount. In fact, if I run Xconfigurator, it tells me I have less
> then 1MB of vram and therefore won't let me use any of the higher
> resolutions that should work
> The interesting thing is that if I change my bpp via the MacOS,
> Xconfigurator reports completely different amounts of vram available
> and not in any logical way that I can see.
If you use 'no video driver' Linux will see the amount of VRAM that was
actually in use by MacOS when booting. You should probably look into a newer
kernel with aty128fb
> Any fixes along these lines would be greatly appreciated (this is with
> Paul's 2.2.10 stable kernel available from his website).
Which is probably just old enough not to have the correct driver.
> Just thought someone in the know should be told :-)
> Kevin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-15 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-15 17:05 controlfb.c bug in VRAM bank2 check if bank1 Kevin_Hendricks
1999-09-15 18:26 ` Kevin Puetz [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-10 15:55 Lou Langholtz
1999-09-10 17:08 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-09-10 18:33 ` Michel Lanners
1999-09-12 16:58 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-09-13 18:13 ` Michel Lanners
1999-09-15 15:14 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-10-12 7:07 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-10-12 6:49 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-10-12 14:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-10-12 15:36 ` Lou Langholtz
1999-10-13 6:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-09-11 10:51 ` Brad Boyer
1999-09-10 20:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-09-11 9:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-12 18:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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