Re: ATI - success but problems too

Ferdinand Prantl (Ferdinand.Prantl@ff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:49:21 +0100

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:35:07AM -0500, Brad Douglas wrote:
> As of 2.3.23+, there is experimental support for a Rage128 framebuffer. The
> code is far from finished and there is no acceleration yet, but at least you
> can have a resolution with any refresh rate you wish.
>
> If either of you have any interest in testing it out, I'd be grateful for
> any feedback you may have (read: bugs).

I finally got it worked. Very good job, thank you. I simply used

fbset -a -xres 1024 -yres 768 -vxres 1024 -vyres 768 -depth 32 -t 10000 192 0 41 21 96 15 -accel true

and got 90 Hz (get rid of annoying 60 Hz with vesafb, grrr).

I did not met any problems when working on consoles. I'm going to test
something using svgalib tonight.

However, when I had started X, the computer rebooted just after about
three seconds. strace -o file did not write anything. I don't know
how I should search for the reason. Maybe you can help me ?

My X works with vesafb good, anyway. Both settings I did after fbset -x
output.

----------------------------------------------------------------
aty128fb:

[snip]

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5-88.0
VertRefresh 40-160
Modeline "800x600" 85.00 800 832 928 1024 600 604 608 624
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Driver "FBDev"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 32
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600"
Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
EndSection

[snip]

--------------------------------------------------------------
vesafb:

[snip]

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5-88.0
VertRefresh 40-160
Mode "1024x768"
# D: 100.000 MHz, H: 76.220 kHz, V: 90.201 Hz
DotClock 100.001
HTimings 1024 1024 1120 1312
VTimings 768 789 804 845
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" # Warning: XFree86 doesn't support accel
EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Driver "FBDev"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 32
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
EndSection

[snip]
---------------------------------------------------------

I have the fresh (yesterday's :-) Debian 2.2 (potato) installed.
I'm trying to test it only with twm in the meanwhile.

My system:

MB Tekram (A) P6B40-A4X (iBX Slot1)
CPU PII Celeron 333
RAM 128 MB
HDD IBM 10 GB
ATI Rage Fury 16 MB TV

Debian 2.2 (unstable-potato)
kernel 2.3.26

Have you ever noticed such accidental reboots ?
Thank you and keep up the good work, anyway.

Ferda Prantl

>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad Douglas
> brad@neruo.com

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