--- Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > harry wrote: > > Hi,all > > > > I met a problem while porting xfree86 to mips, it seems that I > can't unlock the sis6326 registers. SR5 is used as password register > in sis6326, if 86h is written into this register, then A1h will be > read from this register, and unlock all the extension registers.If > the value other than 86h is written into this register, then 21h will > be read from this register,and lock all the extension registers. > > But now when I wrote 86h to this register, I always get ffh, so the > display can't be initialized. > > Is there anyone met this problem? > > You have more than this locking/unlocking problem. It seems that none > of > the registers can be written or read, or they are being read > from/written to wrong addresses. (For example, the memory clock is > never > 14 MHz, and there are no 2MB versions of the 6326.). > > Looks like a general register addressing problem. I have no > experience > whatsoever with mips hardware, so I can't help you further. > > You can, however, try the most recent driver from my website. It uses > > exclusivly relocated i/o ports, so perhaps this helps.
You will need support for legacy IO in the kernel for using vgahw. I have no idea if the MIPS kernel supports this at the moment. See this thread for more info: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=99008958900001&r=1&w=2 You may want to ask on the linux-mips ML. Alex > > Thomas > > > -- > Thomas Winischhofer > Vienna/Austria > thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net > twini AT xfree86 DOT org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
