Re: Mac64 - wrong colors and other problems
On Fre, 2014-01-24 at 03:33 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> IN the default mode (no xorg file) I get this in dpyinfo:
> number of visuals: 33
> default visual id: 0x21
> visual:
> visual id: 0x21
> class: TrueColor
> depth: 16 planes
> available colormap entries: 64 per subfield
> red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
>
> Yes. 16bits :)
>
> The stupid thing is that I think this mode is poorly supported.
>
> If you launch the windowmaker preferences utility, you get totally funny
> colors, green text and pink icons!
Sounds like maybe xf86-video-mach64 doesn't properly handle
byte-swapping in 16bpp.
> [ 13355.449] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> [ 13355.471] [drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64"
> [ 13355.472] (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
> [ 13355.472] (EE) MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
> [ 13355.473] (II) MACH64(0): EXA memory management initialized
> base : 0xb764e000
>
> Wow! Am I missing a module? I checked in
> /lib/modules/3.12-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/video/
>
> and indeed I see nothing like mch64
The mach64 DRM driver never made it into the mainline kernel, so I'm
afraid getting DRI working is hopeless (unless you want to revive the
mach64 DRM driver and get it merged :).
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