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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: ATI Mach64 Kernel driver.
From:       Richard Guenther <zxmpm11 () student ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-12-01 10:44:27
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 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.

Or just a kernel parameter that you can feed with the video
timings (as I believe has the matrox fb - just grepped through
the source...).

Richard.

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