Subject: Re: G4 graphics
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/17/2001 19:13:07
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:32:25AM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>
>   Having started X, I noticed it gives me a 1280x1024x8 display,
> but I have not yet found a possibility to change that. It's just
> a ATI graphics card, and unter MacOS it can do other resolutions,
> so what is the secret config file here?
> 
> | ofb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: ATI Technologies Rage Fury MAXX AGP 4x (TMDS)
> | ofb0: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp

You want to build XF86 4 with the patches on nandra.iri.co.jp.  That's
what I use, and it works MUCH better.

Hopefully this stuff will make it into our source tree one day......