beige g3 rage II xf4.0.1 and miBoot

[Michel Dänzer]

Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > 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.

AFAIK Kostas was talking about the problem that if you don't specify the bus
ID when using an fbdev driver, X disables the graphics chip because no driver
claims it. And he wondered why this locks the machine on PPC while it only
makes the server fail on i386. Right, Kostas?


Michel


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