Subject: Re: New Rage128 revision problems
From: Kevin Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 09:57:52 MST
Hi Yes,
I have the same problems even using XFree 4.0 Rage 128 drivers.
It seems the aty128fb.c kernel driver needs help to work with Rage128Pro cards
(which the O-F device tree reports mine as being).
I am trying to find a tool that will report video card timing info under MacOS
but to no avail.
Both Xpmac and XFree86 will probably need to be fixed.
Unfortunately if the Rage128Pro cards are significantly differnt from regular
Rage128 cards, I am SOL since I don't have any docs on them.
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Troy
Benjegerdes wrote: > I've just installed on a new G4 for a customer, and it
seems like either > Apple or ATI reved the Rage128 in such a manner as to break
both Xpmac and > XF68-FBdev (with r128 accel) for both 15 and 24 bit color.
>
> Anyone else had this problem?
>
> (The symptoms are seeing two or more mouse pointers on the screen and
> haveing the screen be generally messed up)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Troy Benjegerdes troy@blacklablinux.com hozer@drgw.net
>
> Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/)
> software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:
>
> "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it
> because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
> I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
---- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959
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