Patch: PCI resource fixup for atyfb (was: Re: xf 4.0.1 + ati driver with rage II/rage pro)
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Oct 5 05:09:19 EST 2000
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > plum:~ # fbset -depth 24
> > > > ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > That's normal, you also have to decrease the virtual size, which was
> > > initialized to the maximum possible value w.r.t. RAM size.
> >
> > It seems to be a problem with the color palette or somehow color depth
> > related.
> > First I just switched to 1024x768-60 and it didn't work, the next time I
> > added -depth 24 and it works fine. So mol can not increase the color
>
> vmode also needs both arguments for me. fbset crashing when you omit the
> depth argument is weird - does fbset not read the current depth from the
> device before a mode set, Geert?
Yes it does.
> We sure could hack the kernel ioctl to take depth 0 as 'dont change' and
> print a warning?
No, that would violate the `round up' policy.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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