Subject: Re: Console drivers
To: Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/11/2006 15:54:52
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Hello,

On Nov 11, 2006, at 15:10, Marco Trillo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 11/11/06, Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> wrote:
>> > On 11/11/06, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Yes, it apparently requires a fixed "horizontal sync" frequency of
>> >> 72kHz and can't do anything out of that.
>> >> [...]
>> >> I will try with the "1024x768x89" mode.
>> >
>> > No luck yet, the screen continues to get black after radeonfb
>> > initializes.
>> > It appears the driver don't like the "1024x768x89" mode, since it
>> > prints out weird data such as "physical 2083537574x-1813970776 0Hz"
>> > ...
>>
>> Yes, there's no such mode in dev/videomode/videomode.c
>
> Oooops... sorry. I forgot to look into videomode.c.
>
> Hmm... taking a look at the available modes, none of the eMac
> 'supported' ones (which are rather odd) are included.
>
> I will try to add the "1024x768x89" mode from the X11 'ModeLine'.

I was going to suggest that ;)

> It appears that the 'modelines.c' is automatically generated from a
> database called 'modelines', whose content format appear to be the
> same as that of XFree86.

Indeed, looks awfully familiar.

If you get it to work please send me the diff against modelines ( or 
your modified modelines file ) so I can commit it.

have fun
Michael
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