Make the r128 driver work without fbdev

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:16:10 -0600, David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:34 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:28:49 -0600, David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> > > I applied the 2 patches (Needed to mess around with a few rejected
> > > chunks), and I needed to remove one more call from r128_driver.c to
> > > vgaHWGetIOBase
> > >
> > > Here is the config, log and xdpyinfo output
> > >
> > > http://sprocket.stanaway.net/~david/xorg/
> > >
> > > I have not tested dual head yet, will do soon, but single head with
> > > VGAAccess and UseFBDev set to false works.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > great! glad to hear it.  Let me know how dualhead goes.
> >
> 
> 
> At the above url, there is a screenshot (Very vanilla!) and
> xorg.conf-dualhead
> 
> It works :)
> 
> I have some unrelated issues with xkeyboard map etc. My powerbook
> keyboard isn't handled very well, but this is great! Thanks a bunch.
> 
> There is also a diff for the ati driver dir from the 6.8.1 release that
> I built.
> 

Awesome!  thanks for testing.  could you try changing the mode on
crtc2 (ie, ctrl-alt-+/-) ?  I haven't been able to get crtc2 to change
modes properly.  the workaround is to change the mode then switch to
another VT, then switch back.

Alex

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