Re: iBook2 (700mhz 12" screen) radeon framebuffer flicker -- what am I doing wrong?
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:10, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> Thanks folks! Turns out that if you really are running the
> framebuffer, putting the laptop to sleep is trivial (turns out I
> wasn't running the framebuffer, but "native", whatever that truly
> means, before).
Another framebuffer _device_. :) Namely OFfb, which just uses the
display from Open Firmware and doesn't know anything about driving a
chip.
> I've also got X "running", sort of, with Branden's X packages and
> Michael D's DRM modules, on BenH's recent kernel.
What do you mean by my 'DRM modules'? Beware that my dri-trunk packages
currently don't work very well with an M6.
> I'm getting severe flicker (which I didn't see before under X11, but
> did on the console before I figured out the framebuffer issue), under
> X11.
Define 'flicker'. The current dri-trunk packages would apparently cause
a very low refresh rate. If it's a quick flicker where you see the
picture multiple times OTOH, it could be a radeonfb glitch I'm seeing
with an M7. VT switching helps with that one.
> I'm using a configuration similar to Jesus' suggested XF86Config-4
> file (almost exactly), and plugged in the output of a local run of
> "fbset -x" into the proper place, to no avail.
No need, the server has plenty 1024x768 modes built in.
Bottom line: if VT switching doesn't help, you probably don't want to
use my packages just yet. (at least not the latest version, older ones
should work)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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