Problems with the atyfb driver on Power Mac G3 (Possible fix)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Josh Huber wrote:
> Perhaps this is a question for Geert to answer, but it appears as though 2d acceleration is not being used for scrolling text in xterms. As a demonstration, fire up a new xterm, make it real big, and try and ls -lR /
> 
> Now, it's been so long since I've used xpmac that I don't remember wether or not it performed said operation, but perhaps someone could try it out?

I know.

I haven't done anything on ATI acceleration in XF68_FBDev since December 1998.
I just saw the last alpha of the 3.9 branch of XFree86 finally has support for
ATI Mach64, so it may be a good idea to start working again on it (it time
permits)...

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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