On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 00:29, Jens Kutilek wrote: > I compiled a new kernel using the benh source, and included the rivafb > driver. When I boot, i have to add "video=ofonly", otherwise the display > goes to standby on startup.
rivafb doesn't work on PPC out of the box yet. Ani Joshi has patches, AFAIK Ben was going to include them in his tree but I don't know if they are in yet. > I tried to configure X using the configure script of the xserver > package. I set the driver to fbdev. Now the only video mode that works > is 640x480 at 256 colors. With video=ofonly, the video mode can't be changed. It's unlikely that there will ever be decent support for nVidia hardware on PPC, even Ani has pretty much given up on them. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
