On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:49:39PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >I have X4.2 but I have not been able to anything with the different > >config files I have found around in the net. > > > >Anyone has succeded with this configuration? > > > >iBook G3 700 14.1" > >Ati Radeon Mobility M6 LY > >X4.2 > >... what else? > > What does radeonfb from a recent rsync from me does ? it works ? If it > does, then it will probe the modeline using the EDID. You can then use > fbset -x to build an XFree modeline. "radeonfb" where? Inthe kernel append or in the XF86Config-4 file? I have used fbset -x, but in the append I have "aty128fb" which works quite ok, using the "fbdev" as driver for X: 1024x768 nonaccel. BTW: your kernel works out of the box, when compiled and booted, without any ofonly arguments, as you were asking in another mail. > Another possibility is to use Ani Joshi parse-edid tool to directly > parse the EDID property that is somewhere in /proc/device-tree and > obtain an X modeline. To find the property, look for your video card > node in /proc/device-tree/pci@f0000000/ (that is the AGP bus). There > you'll find one or more nodes for the video card (usually a parent and > 2 childs for laptop ATIs), the EDID is in one of the childs, it can > be named "EDID", "LCD,EDID", "EDID1" or whatever around those lines... > > Pipe this in parse-edid to get the modeline I will do it as soon as midsummer day hangover is over. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. www.HispaLinux.es/~data/ || www.simauria.upv.es/~data/ ------------------------------------------------------ Please, encrypt mail address to me. Download my public key from http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/public.gpg.txt ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux user #66350 Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.19
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