beige g3 rage II xf4.0.1 and miBoot

Michael Schmitz schmitz at zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Mon Oct 2 04:05:31 EST 2000


> > Did you try with a framebuffer (vesafb for instance) on x86, and the
> > UseFBDev option? Did anyone ever try?
>
> Yeap i tried it with aty128fb (long time ago), without busID set everything
> works you don't get anything in the screen, no panics/locks as in the ppc
> side.

Which isn't exactly the same because the problem only manifests with
conflicting PCI resources set up before the kernel starts. And that -so
far- only happened with some Mach64 based Macs.

aty128fb not having any problem doesn't prove atyfb can't have these
problems on Intel, too.

	Michael


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