On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 14:58, Paolo Redaelli wrote: > After almost 2 year of peaceful living with Xfree 4.0 on my iBook > Firewire I tried to switch to 4.1. > I've spent 2 days trying all the suggestions you wrote here since X 4.1 > come around. No results. 8-/ > > I've compiled kernel 2.4.19-pre4-ben0 with aty128fb and r128 support > built-in, and using the latest sid's xserver-xfree86 (4.1.0-14). > > I've attacked logs and config (made with dpkg-reconfigure). > If I put UseFBDev on in the config I got the usual garbled screen, > because (i've read here) aty128fb and r128 doesn't agree on screen > width.
Either use my 4.2 binaries from http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/ - they should work with or without Option "UseFBDev" - or use the attached patch for 4.1. Branden, could you include this patch, which is a small bugfix? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Index: r128_driver.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/r128_driver.c,v retrieving revision 1.29.2.1 diff -u -r1.29.2.1 r128_driver.c --- r128_driver.c 2001/05/24 19:43:39 1.29.2.1 +++ r128_driver.c 2002/04/06 14:31:46 @@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ NULL, /* linePitches */ 8 * 64, /* minPitch */ 8 * 1024, /* maxPitch */ - 64 * pScrn->bitsPerPixel, /* pitchInc */ + 8 * 64, /* pitchInc */ 128, /* minHeight */ 2048, /* maxHeight */ pScrn->display->virtualX,
