Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] atyfb: brokenness on PowerMac 5500 and Beige G3

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, coutal coutal wrote:
> i am using the atyfb driver on my powermac 5500 (ati rage II 215GT). after
> upgrading the kernel, three vertical bands of visible distortion appeared in
> my console. they are not videomode-tied (tried almost all my card supports)
> and thus i suspect some breakage in the driver.

Which kernel version worked fine? Which one caused the regression?

> can anyone please have a look at it?
> moreover, what could cause such an effect? would it be memory clock or pll
> programming? please enlighten me a bit, i am curious.

This looks more like a problem with the display FIFO programming (DSP_*
registers): some RAGE chips have 24 entries in the display FIFO, others have
32.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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