Re: [nwst-dev] Re: Video on the ns1000

[Santiago G. M. <ma...@ay...>]

> > Modeline "640x480xmio"   25.175  640 664 760 800  480 491 493 525
> 
> Does the 'xmio' specify color depth? If so, that may be the problem. The
> current code only supports 8bits/pixel color-mapped modes.

Nope, it was to make sure it selected this special mode and not the other
640x480 modes, I was running 8 bits.

> I just got more information on the graphics chip from one of the guys
> on the fbdev mailing list. That should help fixing mode setup on the

Great.

> have 800x600 and 1024x768 working here, except that strange things
> happen on the last line of the console. Probably something broken in
> the scrolling code or accelerator. I will post a newer patch as soon
> as I have something working.

I have been working on all this also.

And I have good news, I have X running here using the 3.3.6 FB server, I
have changed your FB driver (the one that doesn't init the vga) and I got
the console and the X to work at 1024x768 8 bits.

I'm running opera, mozilla, ... on the machine without problems.

The two main things I'm caring for are getting 16 bits to work and also get
it to recognice the 64Megs of ram (currently it only detects 32Mb here)

I'll try to post a compressed tarball of the filesystems once I get some
little things working here and clean up all this ;-)

One thing, do you think we could try to get the sound card working by just
compiling alsa or is there any support on the kernel still needed?

Regards...