Subject: Re: X11 on iBook G4: flickering screen
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/25/2004 19:42:21
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:49:25AM -0600, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>> Try the attached patch (from Rene Rebe, Rock Linux)
>> It fixed the similar problem many people had on iBooks under OpenBSD.
>
> Opinions how this should be integrated, anyone? If I commit that as-is,
> I could break regular radeon boards on PowerPC machines. Do we want that?
>
> An alternative would be to add a ibookradeon driver. The .c file would
> just include radeon_driver.c with a define so that we get the right code.
> We would loose the ability to get X autoconfigured by XFree86 -configure,
> but at least we won't break anything. iBook users would just have to use
> the ibookradeon driver instead of the radeon driver.

 	Is there no way to tell if it is an ibook radeon? The PCI ids
 	and config values are all the same as in a 'genuine' radeon?
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