Re: Xfree 4.1 configuration.
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 14:58, Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> After almost 2 year of peaceful living with Xfree 4.0 on my iBook
> Firewire I tried to switch to 4.1.
> I've spent 2 days trying all the suggestions you wrote here since X 4.1
> come around. No results. 8-/
>
> I've compiled kernel 2.4.19-pre4-ben0 with aty128fb and r128 support
> built-in, and using the latest sid's xserver-xfree86 (4.1.0-14).
>
> I've attacked logs and config (made with dpkg-reconfigure).
> If I put UseFBDev on in the config I got the usual garbled screen,
> because (i've read here) aty128fb and r128 doesn't agree on screen
> width.
Either use my 4.2 binaries from
http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/ - they should work with or
without Option "UseFBDev" - or use the attached patch for 4.1.
Branden, could you include this patch, which is a small bugfix?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Index: r128_driver.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/r128_driver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29.2.1
diff -u -r1.29.2.1 r128_driver.c
--- r128_driver.c 2001/05/24 19:43:39 1.29.2.1
+++ r128_driver.c 2002/04/06 14:31:46
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@
NULL, /* linePitches */
8 * 64, /* minPitch */
8 * 1024, /* maxPitch */
- 64 * pScrn->bitsPerPixel, /* pitchInc */
+ 8 * 64, /* pitchInc */
128, /* minHeight */
2048, /* maxHeight */
pScrn->display->virtualX,
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