On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 14:33, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 1:17 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:44, Lee Braiden wrote: > > > Yes, that's what I mean. If I ctrl-alt-+ to 640x480, for example, I get > > > normal 1024x768 resolution, but only see a 640x480 window, and a few ugly > > > copies of it in the other 'quarters'. > > > > Does your iBook have a Rage128 or Radeon graphics chip? This is possible > > with the latter given the right mode definitions, but requires patching > > aty128fb for the former. > > > > No, it's a rage128. I think I saw that patch around, but wasn't sure if it > was advisable/still necessary/etc. If you've no horror stories and such, > I'll give it a go, but... is there a noteworthy reason that it's not included > in the driver?
I guess nobody has cleaned it up (it hardcoded the panel resolution based on the machine type - don't know if there's a better solution for Rage128 based machines though) and pushed for inclusion yet. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
