Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-11-01 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 10/30/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes it's good to pass video parameters to old world maschines, at leastI do this on a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet. I've found them on the web:video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclkBut in my experience this only effects the command line. In Ubuntu you sh

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:22 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Nope! Same result I do not have this problem with Yellowdog and never > with OW-Macs. Did not try Fedora Core 4… What do you mean by "same result" ? What do you get when passing video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > I receive an "Out of sync

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Thomas Kühner
Nope! Same result I do not have this problem with Yellowdog and never with OW-Macs. Did not try Fedora Core 4… I receive an "Out of sync" with "154 Hz/81 KhZ" in my TFT if I do not pass kernel parameters manually- If I add video"atyfb at the boot prompt, this does not occcur. Strange behavi

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:30 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Hi Ben > > I tried "boot: Linux video=atyfb" and that's what dmesg lists > (unfortunately I couldn't get 'fbst -i' as root = Command not found): > > Most interesting: > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 ro video=ofonly video=aty

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Hi! Sorry I didn't see youre post in the ubuntu forums. But now here's my response. Yes it's good to pass video parameters to old world maschines, at least I do this on a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet. I've found them on the web: video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk But in my experience this only ef

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Thomas Kühner
Hi Ben I tried "boot: Linux video=atyfb" and that's what dmesg lists (unfortunately I couldn't get 'fbst -i' as root = Command not found): Most interesting: > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 ro video=ofonly video=atyfb I did not pass 'video=ofonly'. Maybe I should run the installation

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:15 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Hi All > > > I tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both > distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in > X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz. It's not the Open Firmware driver that should be used on