Re: atyfb and aty128fb faillure 2.3.29 ond x86 and question

Gregoire FAVRE (gregoire.favre@urbanet.ch)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:20:26 +0100


Gregoire FAVRE wrote:

First of all, thanks for the answers that were given to me.

I have rebuild those tree kernels with the needed fonts:

> I have one ATI Xpert@play 8 Mb PCI and one ATI Rage Furry 32 Mb AGP, with two monitors.
>
> I have just compiled 3 2.3.29 and tried first a kernel with atyfb only: on the AGP card,
> I got:
> atyfb : 3D RAGE PRO (PQFP, PCI) [0x4750 rev 0x7e] 512K RESV, 14.31818 MHz PLL, 100 MHz MCLK
> and the screen on it turn on and show me vertical lines of blue, light blue, green and repeat.
> And the boot hangs...

No change at all :-(

> Secondly the kernel with atyfb and aty128fb: exactly the same result...

Guess what: :-(

> Finaly, aty128fb only:
>
> The system boots, but can't see anything in any console other than garbage, but X just works
> as normal, I have taken those from dmesg:

And here's the good change: I discovered a great graphic mode :-)))) very nice!!!

Is there a way to boot in other resolution (like under PPC) without the need of fbset?

And finaly, what's could be wrong with my atyfb for not booting?

Thanks you very much.

Please, don't cc to me: I am on the list...

Greg ICQ:16624071 mailto:greg@ulima.unil.ch
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