R128 on Mac Powerbook (Pismo)

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:43:58 -0500, Brian Victor <bhv1 at psu.edu> wrote:
> I compiled Xorg from the 6.8.1 branch on CVS with Alex's R128 patch on
> my pismo.  Here's how things are stacking up:
> 
>   1) When using a single head, glxinfo reports that direct rendering is
>      on, but running glxgears does not work properly.  The first frame
>      of gears is shown, then I get nothing else; X doesn't even take
>      keyboard input anymore, and I have to ssh in to kill glxgears.
> 
>   2) I attempted a dual head setup.  The cursor will move off the right
>      side of the screen, but the external display isn't getting a
>      signal.  However, using m3mirror does turn the external display on,
>      though of course in mirror mode rather than "spanned desktop."  Do
>      I need to do something to turn the external display on?

By default on ppc the r128 driver uses fbdev for mode setup.  you need
to explicitly turn it off with:
Option "UseFBDev" "false"
in both your device sections so that the driver can set the modes
itself.  Thanks for testing this!

Alex

> 
> Log and conf files are at http://brianhv.org/xorgfiles/
> 
> --
> Brian