Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Puetz wrote: > (I don't know what kind of licenses you are bound by, if no say no). > Especially nice would be to rebuild Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s > debs from http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/4.0/ with > experimental mach64, but I'll ta

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Especially nice would be to rebuild Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > z.ch>'s debs from http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/ > 4.0/ with sory, not debs - not sure why I said that. Just meant to tar it up in the same structure. (well, debs would be co

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you compare > Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128 you'll find xfree 4.0 (with a couple of my > patches in Jack Howarth's RPMS) are over 200% faster then Xpmac. As > for mach64, a local build shows somewhat the same increase

Re: Xpmac (was: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences)

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Is there a Debian potato compatible binary of Xpmac out there > somewhere? Well, on my PB3400, I first used Xpmac.rev10, which I got from Kevin Hendricks site (http://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/rage128_usb/) (which is not responding for me right at the moment) but acceleration on ct6555x is broken

Xpmac (was: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences)

2000-05-12 Thread Ted Whalen
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev > > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you compare > > Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128... > > How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack > up against Xpmac? Is there a Debian potat

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack up > against Xpmac? I have no clue, as I don't own any chips hardware. Stock 4.0 won't work on PPC, but as I said a few messages ago in this thread, I'll try and hack in ppc s

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you > compare Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128... How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack up against Xpmac? -raf

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 > > chipsets. the ATI driver in the stock 4.0 source does not work on > > ppc, I have added PPC support and will get it into 4.01 if i get some > > more fre

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 > chipsets. the ATI driver in the stock 4.0 source does not work on > ppc, I have added PPC support and will get it into 4.01 if i get some > more free time soon. Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Chris Brown
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same > > > > > problems > > > > > as 2.2. > > > > > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old ne

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Really? I seem to be the only one having trouble with accel Xfb-atyfb in 3.3, > and thought that the 4.0 fb backend does not yet have accel... > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 chipsets. the ATI driver in the st

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > > > as 2.2. > > > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > > > > (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, > > suc

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > > as 2.2. > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > > (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, > such as: expose events don't lead to prop

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > as 2.2. > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, such as: expose events don't

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MD" == Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= "Me" == C.M. Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Me> It turned out that xscreensaver was getting bogus Me> information from the X server, and was actually drawing its Me> pretty hacks on a screen some miles to the left and below Me> my desk here in Va

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > It turned out that xscreensaver was getting bogus information from > the X server, and was actually drawing its pretty hacks on a > screen some miles to the left and below my desk here in Vancouver, > B.C. (placing it somewhere deep below the Pacific Ocean, at best, > or p

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MD" == Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= "ACP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACP> A new one: xscreensaver reports: "X SERVER BUG: 1152x864 ACP> viewport at 289,-291 is impossible" MD> A viewport at a negative offset doesn't sound sensible to MD> me, but I may be wrong. I

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > as 2.2. What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > A new one: xscreensaver reports: "X SERVER BUG: 1152x864 viewport at > 289,-291 is impossible" A viewport at a negative offset doesn

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Cort Dougan wrote: > Are you using the stock 2.3.99-pre7-pre8 or the maintained version from > http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html? Some of these problems are taken > care of and I'd to know which ar still lingering around. > > The ppc_ksyms.c patch won't work in some cases since we have other

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Scott Knight wrote: > >* The big showstopper for me is that PPP doesn't work. Chat dials > > just fine, but as soon as it sends the password to my ISP, the > > connection goes down. In /var/log/messages, chat indicates it's > > sent the password, pppd prints "Serial connection

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Cort Dougan
Are you using the stock 2.3.99-pre7-pre8 or the maintained version from http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html? Some of these problems are taken care of and I'd to know which ar still lingering around. The ppc_ksyms.c patch won't work in some cases since we have other debuggers that load as modul

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Scott Knight
>* The big showstopper for me is that PPP doesn't work. Chat dials > just fine, but as soon as it sends the password to my ISP, the > connection goes down. In /var/log/messages, chat indicates it's > sent the password, pppd prints "Serial connection established." and > the

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ani Joshi wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >* clgenfb doesn't start on PPC, it oopses in vga16_init (after > > guessing the board has 32 MB RAM when it has 4). I've sent the > > ksymoops output to linux-fbdev, so the author is aware of the > > problem.

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-10 Thread Ani Joshi
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >* clgenfb doesn't start on PPC, it oopses in vga16_init (after > guessing the board has 32 MB RAM when it has 4). I've sent the > ksymoops output to linux-fbdev, so the author is aware of the > problem. Built as a module, insmod