AGP support on PowerMac G5?
So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly working with my Radeon 9600XT card. Has anyone gotten this to work, or know what's keeping it from working? I can get X to start up, but the display (an Apple Cinema Display 20) goes blank, and won't come back without a reboot. Any help is greatly appreciated. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS--- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card. This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not run with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a different card Section "Device" Identifier "GeForce FX5200" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:240:16:0" EndSection As I understand these things you do not need the AGP just because your card is on an agp bus. I don't know AGP very well (but I was once very intimately familiar with PCI), but I believe that unless you use the AGP features they otherwise work just like a PCI device. I could be completely wrong. The machine I'm writing this on has a US$25 card (an ATI XPert98, 2x AGP, probably more like $5 these days :-) plugged into a 4x AGP slot on the motherboard, but I do *NOT* have AGP running in my kernel (2.4.27-k7, stock Debian). It works great. I'm pretty sure I did not try AGP support on the G5 either (power4 2.6.8-9 Debian). In fact I believe AGP support is not quite there yetbut I hardly miss it (who needs AGP to run a stinkin emacs and a few xterms, gcc and friends ;-) Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?
On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out > Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev > Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run > Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't > Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly > Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card. > > This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not > run with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a > different card > > Section "Device" > Identifier "GeForce FX5200" > Driver "nv" > BusID "PCI:240:16:0" > EndSection So, maybe I'm not getting the video mode correct, or something. Does anyone have an XF86Config for an Apple Cinema Display 20, preferably for an ATI Radeon video card, which I could look at? Even one for an NVidia card with a Cinema Display 20 would be helpful to look at, and make sure I'm doing this right. Thanks, Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS--- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat, There is currently work in progress regarding AGP. This work can be followed on the https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev mailing list. There is also a https://ozlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc64-dev list for those 64-bit minded people :-) Personally I have a Dual G5 (version 2.2) and have X running. I will send my XFConfig86-4 as soon as I reboot back into debian. From MacOSX my graphics card information is ATY,RV350: Type: display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-1 VRAM (Total): 64 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID:0x4150 Revision ID: 0x ROM Revision: 113-A13601-126 Paddy. On Jan 14, 2005, at 16:30, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card. This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not run with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a different card Section "Device" Identifier "GeForce FX5200" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:240:16:0" EndSection So, maybe I'm not getting the video mode correct, or something. Does anyone have an XF86Config for an Apple Cinema Display 20, preferably for an ATI Radeon video card, which I could look at? Even one for an NVidia card with a Cinema Display 20 would be helpful to look at, and make sure I'm doing this right. Thanks, Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS--- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB6Bgi1zUetXBFVsURAoqAAJ424gO5Cjfck3LxaYLy88jlZqeVrgCgk4ED VH6UT1BnyTpqLPRu40TAC14= =flvd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:05 -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard > time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required > to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to > run natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't really the > best, and it'd be nice to have X directly working with my Radeon 9600XT > card. As others have pointed out, getting the radeon driver working isn't related to AGP, so the subject is misleading. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast| http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
