Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] atyfb and radeonfb

[Steve L. <st...@mv...>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>On 13 Nov 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>  
>
>>On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:28, Steven Newbury wrote:
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>>>Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? 
>>>When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a 
>>>black screen.  I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain 
>>>it should be SGRAM.  The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just 
>>>works.
>>>      
>>>
>>Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain
>>this driver, any help implementing the missing features would
>>be nice ;)
>>    
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>Erhm, not really...
>
>For RAGE XL support, you want to contact Steve Longerbeam <st...@mv...>.
>

I reverse-engineered ATI's video BIOS on the Xpert98 PCI card (RageXL) using
a PCI bus analyzer. Got atyfb to work on embedded platforms and PC's 
that way.
It could work with other RageXL-based cards with some tweaking. I'll 
give you the
source if you're interested.

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