Re: ATI Rage128 video out didn't work

[Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au>]

has this patch been merged into the debian kernal image yet?

im way too lazy to compile my own kernel. and i would like to see
this actually be in the kernel. there was mention of making it
conditional as apparently it breaks things for some machine.

thanks

Dean

Matthias Grimm wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 16:19 schrieb Julien BLACHE:
>
> > Matthias Grimm <matthiasgrimm@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > First, you need to patch the kernel, this way:
> >
> > --- prom_init.c.orig    2004-09-07 11:31:26.534522288 +0200
> > +++ prom_init.c 2004-09-07 11:32:20.460324320 +0200
> > @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
> >                        break;
> >        }
> >
> > -       for (j=0; j<prom_num_displays; j++) {
> > +       for (j=0; j<1; j++) {
> >                path = prom_display_paths[j];
> >                prom_print("opening display ");
> >                prom_print(path);
> >
> >
> > prom_init.c lies in the arch/ppc/kernel directory for a 2.4 kernel, in
> > the arch/ppc/syslib directory for a 2.6 kernel. IIRC there is a
> > comment before the for() loop in the 2.4 kernel.
> >
> > After that, and a reboot, m3mirror will work just fine.
>
>
> You are absolutely right :-)
> Thanks a lot. It works perfectly now.
>
>   Best Regards 
>    Matthias

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