Problems with the atyfb driver on Power Mac G3

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at geert.cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Sun Jul 11 21:13:09 EST 1999


On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Eric Dorland wrote:
> >What about providing a private ioctl to set those threshold values ? With
> >a simple command line tool and eventually a pair of sliders on X, this
> >would allow people to try out and us to collect infos about behaviour of
> >various values on various configurations, and eventually provide more
> >conservative default values, and letting the user eventually increase
> >performances later.
> 
> Would anyone be willing to write such I beast? I would be more than willing
> to lend a hand (having fair C skills), but I know little about kernel
> hacking and even less about fiddling with video drivers, so I don't know
> how much help I'd be :)

It's on my list. Not the GUI thing of course, but just the ioctl() stuff and a
small program to play with it.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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