Hello. I just noticed that in 2.2.18pre27 you can only use the aty128fb
driver at 8 bit, because of some missing bits to drivers/video/Config.in.
w/o this you can't use console at > 8 bit nor X. I would consider this to
be a good thing to squash for 2.2.18 final because 2.2.18 is the 1st release
in a while that works well on PPC, and lots of PPCs have a rage128.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hello. I just noticed that in 2.2.18pre27 you can only use the aty128fb
> driver at 8 bit, because of some missing bits to drivers/video/Config.in.
> w/o this you can't use console at > 8 bit nor X. I would consider this to
> be a good thing to squash for 2.2.18 final because 2.2.18 is the 1st release
> in a while that works well on PPC, and lots of PPCs have a rage128.
You mean the FBCON_CFBx options with x > 8? You're correct that you need them
for a text console, but you don't need them for X.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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> Hello. I just noticed that in 2.2.18pre27 you can only use the aty128fb
> driver at 8 bit, because of some missing bits to drivers/video/Config.in.
> w/o this you can't use console at > 8 bit nor X. I would consider this to
> be a good thing to squash for 2.2.18 final because 2.2.18 is the 1st release
> in a while that works well on PPC, and lots of PPCs have a rage128.
Also, this patch to make it compile as module. How did these get removed?
I could have swore they used to work fine.
Sorry for the attachment. This computer has evolution.
Brad Douglas
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http://www.linux-fbdev.org