GXT2000P on an IBM RS/6000

[Rene Rebe]

On Friday 13 October 2006 15:31, Tom Moyer wrote:
> The GXT2000P has 32MB of RAM as far as I know.  I think part of the problem
> might be that X is only seeing 4MB, but for some reason, even when I
> specify the amount of VideoRAM, it still only shows 4MB.

But aside of the 4MB limitation the MGA driver works properly?

Yours,

> On 10/13/06, Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote:
> > On Friday 13 October 2006 15:01, Tom Moyer wrote:
> > > I have tried to disable the ShadowFB by setting Option ShadowFB
> > > "false", and now I get a signal 11 when I startx.  The new log is at
> > > http://geodyn.psu.edu/xorg_errors/Xorg.0.log.sig11
> > >
> > > On 10/13/06, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 10:18 -0400, Tom Moyer wrote:
> > > > > I have been trying to get X.org to work on several IBM RS/6000's
> > > > > lately and have had no luck.  The two links are to
> > > > > the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.  Could
> > > > > someone please look them over and see why I can't get X working. 
> > > > > When I try startx, I get X to start, but the screen is a mess.
> > > >
> > > > Note that the fbdev driver in 7.1 is known to have issues with
> >
> > ShadowFB
> >
> > > > (see e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7691). If the
> > > > problem persists with that disabled, please also provide the output
> > > > of fbset -i.
> >
> > The GXT2000P was a relabelled Matrox card, no? Some years ago I fixed
> > the matrox driver to correctly detect the low ammount of RAM (1 or 2 MB
> > IIRC)
> > to work correctly on my RS6000 B50. Maybe try the mga driver on your box
> > if
> > you silicon is a MGA chip as well.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
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