Radeon 9600 and X

[Dan Burcaw]

Please be patient for another few days.. I'll have something soon :)

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 06:14, Kunihiro Ishiguro wrote:
> I've got the latest PowerBook with Radeon 9600.  I'm trying to run X
> on this notebook but so far no luck.
> 
> Kernel is the latest Yellowdog one (kernel-2.4.22-2a).  X is the
> latest CVS version and I've tried 4.3.99.14 snapshot also.
> 
> With "radeon" driver, the screen looks like sand storm.  With "fbdev"
> driver, color allocation is strange.  White becomes blue, pink becomes
> gray...
> 
> I tried to use radeonfb and "radeon" driver for it.  /etc/yaboot.conf
> has this line.
> 
> append="hdc=ide-scsi video=radeonfb:1440x900-24@60"
> 
> but dmesg said kernel use Open Firmware frame buffer.
> 
> Using unsupported 1440x900 ATY,Jasper_A at bc008000, depth=8, pitch=1536
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 180x56
> fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@f0000000/ATY,JasperParent@10/ATY,Jasper_A@0
> Using unsupported 640x480 ATY,Jasper_B at ba008000, depth=8, pitch=768
> fb1: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@f0000000/ATY,JasperParent@10/ATY,Jasper_B@1
> 
> Then XFree86.0.log said.
> 
> (EE) RADEON(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors above for possible reasons
> 
> I'm not sure I'm taking true path or not.  Here is XF86Config-4 and
> XFree86.0.log.  Any inputs are welcome...
> --
> Kunihiro Ishiguro
>