Subject: Re: framebuffer device drivers
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/24/2007 16:49:22
On 21-Jul-07, at 1:51 PM, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> radeonfb - should support most Radeons up to the R300 family.
> Tested mostly on R2xx chips though, mainly because that's the
> hardware I have. So, just as with machfb please report success or
> failure and include a pcictl dump. This driver should re-initialize
> the console when X exits.
AFAIK this still has an issue with using certain widescreen modes
over DVI -- I ran into this on my Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz with a DVI
monitor at 1680x1050. I believe there's an XXX about it in the driver
itself.
Cheers,
Jared