> I have been unable to get my ATI Rage XL board working properly with the
> atyfb.c framebuffer driver. Has anyone had any luck running the Rage with
> the aty framebuffer driver. Eventually, I need to port this to a mips board,
> so using a VESA or VGA framebuffer driver will not be a viable solution.
I am using it with Rage XL on sparc64 (Sun Blade 100) every day. It mostly
works. Two known problems:
* on Sun, wrong memory clock is used by default. It's 120 (maybe the
PC versions of the card use this). The builtin one in Blade 100 has lower
clock. I use atyfb:mclk:100 and it works, don't know what's the right one. 120
causes snow-like effect on screen on most (but not all) bootups. There's a
comment in source that tells we might want to read the memory clocks from
OpenPROM but no-one has implemented it yet.
* Console switching from X does not work. Switching between text consoles
(using atyfb) works but changing from X to text console hangs the computer.
Probably a problem with X (XF 4.0.1, debian unstable).
Otherwise, no problems. Well, X may be somewhat slow, but then again, it's
probably X at fault.
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