some progress: opening display /platinum at F8000000... failed

[P. Barrette]

Thanks for the reply, I have never actually seen OF before, I've been
doing it blind for a year or so, but that makes sense.  Kind of ironic
that I have the problems now that I can see the errors;-)  I have that new
driver I'll try it out.

--------
Paul Barrette
Ph.D. Candidate Classics (Latin Literature)
System Administrator
McMaster University

"Oppositaque ad os manu nescio quid taetrum 
exsibilavit, quod postea Graecum esse affirmabat."
                                      --Petronius

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Paul Barrette <barretp at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> > NB it gave me the same problem! opening display /platinum at F8000000... failed
> 
> That message is a bit of a red herring, all it is telling you is that
> OF doesn't have a method for initializing the platinum, but you knew
> that anyway.  It just means that you can't use the video=ofonly
> option.
> 
> There are some problems with the platinumfb driver.  Mark Abene posted
> a message recently with a better version of the platinumfb driver.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 


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