Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA
Afaik, the ati driver XF403 is not supposed to work on ppc w/mach64 chips; I am surprised you got that far. You might try retrograding to puetzk's old 402 debs for Woody.
-jeramy
Eric Deveaud <edeveaud@pasteur.fr> wrote:
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>
> I've just installed woody on an old Imac (one of the first one)
>
> just to ask about something strange
>
> whith the following Device section in XF86Config-4
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "ati"
> BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
> EndSection
>
> X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in
> a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed.
> eg: I try to represent it
> __ __
> |\ | |__| | /| |__|
> | \ | | \ -> | / | / |
> | \| | \ |/ | / |
>
>
> while using the following Device section everything is OK
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "fbdev"
> Option "UseFBDev"
> EndSection
>
> what I did wrong ??
>
> Eric
>
>
> NB here a some more details about the machine
> running 2.4.5-pre3 Benh kernel
>
> lpsci gives me
> 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro
> 215GP (rev 5c)
>
> part of dmesg
> atyfb: 3D RAGE PRO (PQFP, PCI) [0x4750 rev 0x7c] 6M SGRAM, 14.31818 MHz
> XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 100 Mhz MCLK
> atyfb: monitor sense=73f, mode 6
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
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>
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> CF : les rouleaux à l'intérieur sont plus larges, j'imagine que ça doit
> : améliorer le contact avec la boule.
> JMG: C'est vrai que c'est vachement plus agréable...
> -+- JMG in Guide du Macounet Pervers : Bien nettoyer ses boules -+-
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-jeramy b smith
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