Quoting Peter Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 08:35:29PM +0200, Hadess wrote: > > And for the XF4 binaries (not in .deb, but shouldn't mess up your > config to > > much), are at http://hadess.net/files/xf4 > > Hey, thanks for these. The server responds well - very spiffy, > especially > after using Xpmac for a while. > > There's some strangeness with XF4 I'd like to see if you can figure out. > If > I start X in 16-bit depth, everything is very, very green. But if I > start in > 15-bit, it's fine. I think 24-bit is ok, too. Do you know why this might > be? > I'm using a Rage 128 Pro card (Vendor id=1002, Device id=5245 according > to > /proc/pci) in a 7600 with a monitor also attached to control. I believe > this > problem has always happened to me, but I don't remember if it's ever > since I > got the card, or ever since I tried XF4. I believe it's the former...
Me guesses that these are issues with the kernel frame-buffer that the driver is still using. Michel and Ani might have more information on this. The Mach64 driver has the same issues right now. > Also, does anyone kow how to set up a terminal on fb1? It's just got > something that looks like a stereogram on it now. fbgetty will set up a > getty on a terminal and tell me it's using fb1, but it's very clearly > just > where the rest of them are. I found a program called con2fb which is > supposed to be able to move ttys between fbs, but it caused a kernel > panic. > I think it might only be for Matrox cards; dunno. Thanks for any advice. I think you forgot to CC debian-powerpc. If anybody can help with this, as I never tweaked that much with the frane-buffer (Geert ?). > TIA, ciao, > > Peter > Hope this helps /Hadess http://hadess.net
