Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > > This must have been something else that was causing the problem, since I > > have just replaced my numbers with yours and they work, as well as the > > others that I thought didn't work (which work also)...hmmm....and this may > > have had to do with the Option "UseFBDev", since that was added at some > > point. > > Yes, I can't explain too many times that either that or some other options are > needed.
Michel, I didn't realize I would need that, I didn't find any information available on it. I was trying to get the Rage 128 driver to work in the first place, and in fact the reason I took my Pismo to woody, since woody had XFree86-4. The fbdev driver was really painful on potato! (all x86 systems are still at potato) To be honest, I have always tried to stay away for ATI video on x86. I use Matrox in all my other machines (and I have a Thinkpad with a Neomagic). I wish Apple would have put a different video on this, *BUT*, it does have 8meg of memory...(I have no complaints there in regards to a laptop;-). I've had what I would consider a difficult time to get my PowerBook to run Debian, but it is running it fairly nicely finally. Part of it is my lack of knowledge of Apple hardware, I guess most of the Apple folks know most of these tweaks that are needed to compile a kernel. Things are a bit different than x86 though...I've always used xf86setup most of the time which seems to have gone, and replaced with xf86cfg, and xf86Config is gone also... > Dunno. If you find something, let us know so we can enhance the programming of > the FP regs in the driver. :) I'll try and dig it up and if I can find anything I'll let you know. I'll have to ask around, I work with a lot of ex-Apple folks, one of them might know...like the hardware engineer... -- Alan DuBoff Software Orchestration, Inc.
