Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Martin Costabel writes: > > > For the valkyriefb driver on my Pmac 6400, I can confirm from a first > > short test that it still works. This is with your patch applied to > > today's 2.4.17-pre1-ben0 kernel. > > Do you still have macos on the 6400? If so can you confirm whether,
Yes, I still have MacOS 8.6. No 9.x, though. > if you set the screen resolution and colour depth in macos, that the > value you have set in macos is the default that linux will use? I did some tests with the 2 useful modes of the 6400: 1024x768x8bit at 72Hz (vmode 15, cmode 8) and 800x600x16bit at 60Hz (vmode 10, cmode 16). The results, with or without Tom's patch, were the same as they always were: The vmode of MacOS is used by the Linux console; the cmode 16 is not recognized, so instead of vmode 10 16 one always gets vmode 10 8 as default. The log says kernel: Monitor sense value = 0x62b, <6>using video mode 10 and color mode 0 I think I never saw this differently. For 16bit color, I always had to either put video=valkyriefb:vmode:10,cmode:16 into the kernel args or say vmode 10 16 at the console (and then startx -- -depth 15 to get the right colors in X; -depth 16 gives weird colors). P.S. Rebooting into MacOS (first time for almost a year) seems to have cured the crashes I had yesterday, too. Weird. -- Martin
