Re: [PATCH] Minor changes to control/imstt/platinum/valkyrie/atyfb

[Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>]

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> Martin Costabel writes:
> 
> > For the valkyriefb driver on my Pmac 6400, I can confirm from a first
> > short test that it still works. This is with your patch applied to
> > today's 2.4.17-pre1-ben0 kernel.
> 
> Do you still have macos on the 6400?  If so can you confirm whether,

Yes, I still have MacOS 8.6. No 9.x, though.

> if you set the screen resolution and colour depth in macos, that the
> value you have set in macos is the default that linux will use?

I did some tests with the 2 useful modes of the 6400: 1024x768x8bit at
72Hz (vmode 15, cmode 8) and 800x600x16bit at 60Hz (vmode 10, cmode 16). 

The results, with or without Tom's patch, were the same as they always
were: 
The vmode of MacOS is used by the Linux console; the cmode 16 is not
recognized, so instead of vmode 10 16 one always gets vmode 10 8 as
default. The log says 

kernel: Monitor sense value = 0x62b, <6>using video mode 10 and color
mode 0 

I think I never saw this differently. For 16bit color, I always had to
either put video=valkyriefb:vmode:10,cmode:16 into the kernel args or
say vmode 10 16 at the console (and then startx -- -depth 15 to get the
right colors in X; -depth 16 gives weird colors).
 
P.S. Rebooting into MacOS (first time for almost a year) seems to have
cured the crashes I had yesterday, too. Weird.

-- 
Martin