Re: ANNOUNCE ATI 128 port of new api

[Franz S. <Fra...@la...>]

At 02:40 23.11.2001, James Simmons wrote:

> > > I just finished and tested the ATI 128 driver for the ruby tree which 
> uses
> > > the new fbdev api. Works like a charm. No acceleration tho. I will add
> > > that in later. Please give it a try. Also use it as a example for porting
> > > other drivers.
> >
> > I removed some more old PPC cruft (COMPAT_XPMAC, vmode/cmode handling), 
> but I
> > cannot get it to boot, cause it crashes early with a corrupted video 
> mode, so
> > I cannot see anything.
>
>Thanks for removing the crud. I tried the driver on my ix86 box and it
>worked. The only difference is the macmode stuff. Try commenting that out
>to see what happens. If it works then we have a bug with the mac mode
>stuff.

Already tried that, same problem.

> > Have you tried it without any other CONFIG_*_CONSOLE besides
> > CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE?
>
>Yes. VGAcon and MDAcon work fine. In fact I run my machine with mdacon and
>fbcon at the same time, with mdacon as my VT console. This way if it oops
>mdacon prints out what happens. Plus I can debug fbcon or a framebuffer
>driver without any problems.

I mean did you try with _only_ CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE and 
CONFIG_FB_ATY128 enabled? Cause that's the only choice I have. The screen 
looks like the console code and the chip disagree on the selected 
resolution and/or bpp, but I can't see anything obviously wrong in your 
changes.

Franz.