[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Patch: Make atyfb framebuffer device support LCD monitors (fwd)

[Geert U. <Gee...@so...>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> This may interest you...

I already knew about the patch, but never tried it before...

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:03:17 +0100 (CET)
> From: Dani=EBl Mantione <da...@de...>
> To: ma...@co...
> Subject: Patch: Make atyfb framebuffer device support LCD monitors
>=20
> Hello!
>=20
> It took me a long time to get it working, my first attempt to make it w=
ork
> was 2 1/2 year ago, but it finally works; I can use the Atyfb framebuff=
er
> device driver on my laptop!!!

I gave it a try on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z600TEK. Unfortunately the screen was
either black (booted without arguments, i.e. in 640x480) or grey (booted =
with
video=3D1024x768-60). When I typed (blindly), I saw some flicker on each =
line
feed. Using fbset didn't change anything.

Relevant dmesg output:
| atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
| atyfb: Mach64 BIOS is located at c0000, mapped at c00c0000.
| atyfb: BIOS contains driver information table.
| atyfb: colour active matrix monitor detected: Hitachi TX31D72VC1CAA =20
|         id=3D2, 1024x768 pixels, 262144 colours (LT mode)
|         supports 60 Hz refresh rates, default 60 Hz
|         LCD CRTC parameters: 15384 167 127 130 0 17 805 767 769 6
| atyfb: 3D RAGE Mobility (PCI) [0x4c4d rev 0x64] 8M SDRAM, 29.498928 MHz=
 XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 50 Mhz MCLK
| Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
| fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI

Dani=EBl: IIRC, you have a RAGE LT PRO. Did you get any success stories f=
rom
people with a RAGE Mobility?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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