Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-24 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 09:08:38PM -0700, bigj wrote: > Maybe someone can explain the differences b/w the different X servers (i.e > Xpmac vs XF68_FBDev) and what is needed to get stable accelerated X > support? > urls will be welcomed as well. > Hello, ... XF86_FBDev is an X server that will wo

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-23 Thread bigj
Maybe someone can explain the differences b/w the different X servers (i.e Xpmac vs XF68_FBDev) and what is needed to get stable accelerated X support? urls will be welcomed as well. On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hugh Caley wrote: > Also as an FYI, Xpmac_mga works fine to accelerate my preset PB G3 (Lomba

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 10:13:15PM -0700, bigj wrote: > > > > XF86_FBDev accellerated? Or just I should give parameter in XF86Config > > > > and/or BootX and/or fbset ? (I'm really new to Mac hardware :) > > > > > > You must use atyfb to get acceleration o

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-22 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 10:13:15PM -0700, bigj wrote: > > > > XF86_FBDev accellerated? Or just I should give parameter in XF86Config > > > and/or BootX and/or fbset ? (I'm really new to Mac hardware :) > > > > You must use atyfb to get acceleration on ATI Mach64. > > > > Geert et al, >The p

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-22 Thread bigj
> > XF86_FBDev accellerated? Or just I should give parameter in XF86Config > > and/or BootX and/or fbset ? (I'm really new to Mac hardware :) > > You must use atyfb to get acceleration on ATI Mach64. > Geert et al, The problem is not as simple. The G3 laptops have a different kind of video

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, luther sven wrote: > Ok, I gave it a look, ... > > First you are using offb, which don't seem to set the accel flag, so it is > normal that the X server don't recognizes the chip. > > So first you have to get a fbdev that sets the accel flag correctly, don't > know if the o

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-16 Thread luther sven
Ok, I gave it a look, ... First you are using offb, which don't seem to set the accel flag, so it is normal that the X server don't recognizes the chip. So first you have to get a fbdev that sets the accel flag correctly, don't know if the offb is capable of that, best would be to ask on the fb

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > Actually, it was an incomplete merge of VGER code. Try 2.2.10. > > 2.2.10 has also a problem on chrp (dunno about booting): > > make[1]: Entering directory > `/project/Linux/kernel-source-2.2.10-2.2.10/arch/ppc/chrpboot' > ./piggyback image < ../

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Actually, it was an incomplete merge of VGER code. Try 2.2.10. 2.2.10 has also a problem on chrp (dunno about booting): make[1]: Entering directory `/project/Linux/kernel-source-2.2.10-2.2.10/arch/ppc/chrpboot' ./piggyback image < ../coffboot/vmlinux.gz | as -o image.o cksum = 6b3cd8a3 make[1

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Travis Beals wrote: > What I'd like to know is how you got 2.2.9 to compile for PPC... I've > been working on that forever--it seems that 2.2.8 broke syscalls.c and > maybe also pmac_setup.c for PPC. I think the errors may only be relevant > if you have IDE enabled (Power

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Travis Beals wrote: > That works fine, although my X server dies every once in a while if I > switch from it to another shell and back. This also happens to me. I'm using pm2fb on my Amiga. So it seems it's an X server and/or kernel problem. Michel -- Coming to you live from a finite point

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Travis Beals
>sorry for my lameness, but I had a video=atyfb parameter in BootX and >Mach64 support in the kernel, but not for virtual frame buffer - I had >strange crash at boot time when I use a self-compiled 2.2.9 kernel (I >should try to enable/disable various driver/modules to find the problem, >but I don'

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Igor Falcomata' wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > (**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode > > > > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: OFfb ATY,RageLT > > ^^^ > > > > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 1536K @

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-15 Thread Igor Falcomata'
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > [...] > > > (**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode > > > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: OFfb ATY,RageLT > ^^^ > > > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 1536K @ 0x82800800 > > > (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0K @ (nil) > >

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Igor Falcomata' wrote: > > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > There are still some problems with some ATI boards with the accelerated X > > > server i made. > > > > Yepp, > > (please excuse my bad english) > > > > on m

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Igor Falcomata' wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > There are still some problems with some ATI boards with the accelerated X > > server i made. > > Yepp, > (please excuse my bad english) > > on my powerbook g3/233 with ati rage-lt I'm unable to run your s

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-14 Thread Igor Falcomata'
Sven LUTHER wrote: > There are still some problems with some ATI boards with the accelerated X > server i made. Yepp, (please excuse my bad english) on my powerbook g3/233 with ati rage-lt I'm unable to run your server accellerated.. dmesg: [...] MacOS display is /pci/ATY,RageLTPro Using unsup

XFree86 and ATI accel.

1999-06-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... There are still some problems with some ATI boards with the accelerated X server i made. I know that Hartmut has such problems with his aty-XClaim board (RagePro, 4MB SGRAM). Also i had a report of problems with a Mach64 GT (0x4754 rev 0x41, 2M EDO) based board. You know i am in the