patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to workonppcwithr128

[Michel Dänzer]

Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > A clean patch against XFree 4.0 would help to decide if I just missed some
> > > more cache flush magic or if it's a real atydb bug.
> >
> > I suspect it is the latter as Kevin Puetz has reported a similar problem with
> > Mach64 on the debian-powerpc list. The server locked the machine in
> > fbdevHWModeInit(). If you could rebuild libfbdevhw.a with DEBUG defined (in
> > fbdevhw.c), we might get more valuable information from the log.
>
> Sounds like the very bug I'm chasing. It chokes on the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO
> ioctl. The mode in question is reported as:
>
> xfree init mode:        64902   1024 1064 1200 1344   768 771 777 806
> fbdev init mode:        15407   1024 40 136 144   768 3 6 29   16 0:0:0
>
> with the only thing that seems fishy the 0:0:0 as the res:blue:green
> length values.

If it's for 16 bpp, this might be the problem.

Have you tried with several depths? (15, 8, 24, 32, ???)


Michel

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