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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: ATI Mach64 Kernel driver.
From:       Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven () cs ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-11-30 15:06:48
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Kris Karas wrote:
> > From reading all those reports about the driver, it looks like ioremap()
> > behaves different on ia32 than on PPC and SPARC64...
> 
> As a positive note to all the failures, atyfb works fine for me.  :-)
> XPERT-98, 8MB, AGP, on BX-chipset MB, dual-PII/SMP kernel.

Fine!

> Now if I only had a way to make it come up in 1280x1024x24@80Hz
> instead of 640x480x8@60.   :-(

You can use `fbset -a' to change the resolution for all VCs at once.

But yes, there should be a shared video mode database (__init of course) with
some standard video modes, like there's already for the Mac.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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