Subject: Re: Testers with Rage 128 needed
To: Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/16/2007 16:23:47
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Hello,

On Nov 16, 2007, at 09:35, Marco Trillo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Nov 11, 2007 11:57 AM, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just committed a preliminary console driver for ATI Rage 128
>>> graphics controllers - many G4 PowerMacs shipped with those.
>>
>> Do you have a kernel image with the driver to test?  I tried to get
>> the latest releng snapshots from yesterday but they don't seem to be
>> available in the FTP server (although they are mentioned in
>> releng.netbsd.org); perhaps due to the server relocation that was
>> announced yesterday.
>
> This doesn't matter now that new snapshots are available.
> I used the latest snapshot (200711120002Z) to test the driver in the
> machine I commented earlier (PowerMac G4 Sawtooth "AGP graphics" or
> PowerMac3,1).
> Sorry for the delay since my first message :-( .
>
> The r128 card of this machine seems to be the same model as yours
> (AGP4X, reported as 'ATI Technologies Rage Fury MAXX AGP 4x (TMDS)').
> So, as expected, the driver attaches without modification and
> everything works fine with a speedy console.

Good :)

> The only weird thing that I noticed was that, after booting the
> kernel, no framebuffer output was printed until the r128 driver
> attached. The first line of text was 'wsdisplay0 at r128fb0'.
> But this may be fixed since this snapshot.

I fixed that a few days ago, got nothing to do with r128fb.

have fun
Michael
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