Re: X on the new TiBooks
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:27:03AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > The framebuffer device should display any mode passed to it by the X
> > server. Do you have an 1152x768 mode definition in your XF86Config
> > (there is no such mode built into the server yet) and use that?
>
> I didn't - a couple people sent me appropriate bits of configuration
> privately. However, that hasn't completely cured the problem - the
> colours are all wrong (it looks for all the world as if everything's in
> 16 colours, though as far as I can tell from the X server output that's
> news to it). It's bad enough to still be hard to look at, though I
> suspect that if I fell back onto something like twm that might not be
> such a problem.
>
> I've also had one hard lockup of the machine while running the X server
> like this, though I'm not entirely convinced that wasn't kernel related
> rather than the X server.
I've got X semi-working on my new TiBook using the fb driver, but the
colourmap is really screwed up. I'm working on extracting the Radeon M6
support out of XFree86's CVS tree, but it's slow going so far (their
changelog leaves alot to be desired in terms of helpfulness). If I get
anything soon, I'll send it to you to test. In the meantime, would you
like my XF86Config-4? It's very ugly, but X does work.
Oh, also, I've had a lockup once or twice while testing X, but it was
always after I had killed the Xserver a few times and was working on the
console again. So far, no concrete way of reproducing that behaviour...
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