Re: getting external monitors to work with 15" powerbook

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 11:55, John Leach wrote:
> Hello again Michel,
> 
> One more bit of information for you.  When in the dual monitor mode with
> the crazy messed up colours, I've observed that uninterrupted blocks of
> solid colour are drawn correctly.
> 
> For example, I use the Gnome desktop background (Nautilus in my case). 
> If I set the solid background colour to be what should be blue (but is
> displayed black in the colour selector as I've previously stated), it is
> drawn correctly as blue on the background.  If I click and drag an icon
> around, it leaves a black trail.  (An image background is rendered
> incorrectly as everything else).

I'd say the engine endianness is correct, but not the framebuffer
aperture access one.

Michel, check if both AP0 and AP1 bits are set properly in
SURFACE_CNTL.

Ben.