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Re: FFB/AFB Misdetect Take 2



On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:11:01AM -0700, Jeramy B. Smith wrote:
> Thanks for helping me out Brendan with reporting this. Here is the problem
> in a nutshell. I have a system with a creator3d rev 3 card. However, X11
> detects it as an AFB card and since it can't detect the proprietary
> firmware disables accel for the X server.
> 
> http://penguinppc.org/~jeramy/X-Conf-Log
> 
> This is a file containing my xf86config and a log of X11 startup.

So the following line is incorrect?

(--) SBUS: Sun Elite3D

I have to admit I don't know a lot about Sun's proprietary display
hardware.  I don't think I can offer much help here; perhaps try asking
on debian-sparc.

Also, please be warned that there may be an acronym collision here.  The
AFB referenced in your logfile that you appear to be talking about:

(II) /dev/fb0: AFB: Detected Elite3D/M6.
(II) /dev/fb0: BT498 (PAC2) ramdac detected
(II) /dev/fb0: Detected Elite3D M3/M6, checking firmware...
(II) /dev/fb0: ... AFB firmware not loaded
(WW) /dev/fb0: Forcing no acceleration on Elite3D M3/M6

*probably* has nothing to do with a part of the X Window System server
implementation called "afb" for "Amiga framebuffer".  Support for that
framebuffer type is not built for the SPARC architecture in Debian,
however.

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |     you could explain to me where you
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