Re: Video RAM detection for X
--- Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:54, Steven Tomcavage wrote:
> > I am having trouble getting my PowerMac 6360 to run X
> on
> > Woody with anything greater than 8 bit color depth.
> This
> > was fine when I was setting up the system, but now it
> is
> > limiting. I am using an 800x600 display. I have the Mac
> > side of the machine displaying 16 bit color at 800x600,
> so
> > I know it works on the hardware.
> >
> > When I look through the X log, it doesn't look like the
> > correct amount of video RAM is being detected. The
> machine
> > has 1 MB of video RAM. I tried setting VideoRam to 1024
> in
> > the Display section of my XF86Config-4 file, but that
> > doesn't seem to have any effect. Here's the line that
> makes
> > me question the video RAM situation:
> >
> > (II) FBDev(0): Hardware: valkyrie (vidmem: 468k)
>
> The fbdev driver trusts the framebuffer device about the
> amount of video
> RAM, I don't think it could map more anyway.
>
> If you're running OFfb (check in /proc/fb), you can't use
> any other
> resolution than what you boot into with that. You'll have
> to use
> valkyriefb.
>
I looked and I'm using valkyriefb. I did some more
searching, and it appears that the problem is that I am
using a 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4. I tried to install a 2.4
kernel, but I ran into some keyboard issues. I know the
keymap has been changed in woody to use Linux keycodes, but
I was running woody previously with the 2.2 kernel.
I was also already using Linux keycodes in my 2.2 kernel.
The 2.4 kernel that I installed (apt-get install
kernel-image-2.4.12-powerpc) is trying to use ADB codes.
Does anyone know how to switch this to Linux codes without
a kernel recompile?
I tried setting the kernel option
"keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1", but that didn't work.
Thanks.
-Steven
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