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Re: Quik and atyfb



Hi,

On Friday 11 August 2006 09:33, Simon Stapleton wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue.  There is a
> difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way
> BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the various gubbins)
> from a BootX / miBoot boot works fine and gives you accelerated
> video, the same from a quik boot results in garbage.
>
> It's a bit of a pain, to be frank, but I don't currently have the
> time to delve into the source of both to see what is happening.

Some more information from a private disucssion on IRC, p2-mate is the quik 
maintainer:

Aug 11 10:12:16 <h01ger>        p2-mate, have you seen 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00073.html ?
Aug 11 10:13:43 <h01ger>        p2-mate, re: that mail: i'll ask the guy to 
file a bug against quik?
Aug 11 10:14:08 <p2-mate>       h01ger: no
Aug 11 10:14:13 <p2-mate>       it's not a quik bug
Aug 11 10:14:33 <p2-mate>       it's probably because macos inits the aty card 
in a different way then OF does
Aug 11 10:14:52 <p2-mate>       there is very little I can do against that I'm 
afraid
Aug 11 10:16:05 <p2-mate>       I think the proper solution is to fix atyfb
Aug 11 10:16:09 <h01ger>        ah
Aug 11 10:16:55 <p2-mate>       both miboot and bootx cause macos to init the 
gfx hardware
Aug 11 10:18:05 <h01ger>        so there are circumstances where bootx is a 
better choice then quik?
Aug 11 10:19:40 <p2-mate>       it causes more hw to be initialized by macos 
yes
Aug 11 10:19:51 <p2-mate>       personally I don't like bootx at all
Aug 11 10:20:16 <p2-mate>       it makes for horrible boottimes


regards,
	Holger

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