Accel. Video on PB G3/300?

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Tue Jun 22 00:21:35 EST 1999


On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> 	I managed to install R5 on a PowerBook G3/300, but I could not get accelerated
> video running. I used "video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:xx" with xx from 63 to
> 73, but got always the "garbage screen". Has anyone had better results?

Which kernel version is shipped with R5? Does the kernel tell you the estimated
clock crystal frequency (XTAL) during the initialization of the ATI frame
buffer device (atyfb)? If not, they're using a kernel without the clock crystal
frequency estimation patch (present in 2.3.6).

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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