Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote:
> >
> Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append
> video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the DefaultFbBpp line
> in the XF86Config-4 file is unnecessary (in fact, has to be removed).
Color depth in console and X are independent. In fact, anything besides
cmode=8 is a waste of video RAM and performance for console because it
only has 16 colors anyway.
> The result is a very beautiful display, but it's very, very slow. I
> expect you knew that. However, since most of my programming class seem
> to spend their time gazing at the utter beauty of C source code, I'll go
> with it for now ;)
Are you using the ati driver? It should give fairly decent performance.
> I still don't know where the list of vmodes is. In the end, tralling
> the web at random chose 22 for me. I thought it might be in the
> XFree.org site, but not where I can see it. I suppose it's
> apple-hardware specific, but I can't find it in their documentation
> (which is not much fun to read for a Linux geek).
It certainly doesn't have anything to do with XFree86. ;)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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