Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:36, Holger Levsen wrote: Some more information from a private disucssion on IRC, p2-mate is the quik maintainer: Aug 11 10:12:16 h01gerp2-mate, have you seen

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 August 2006 09:33, Simon Stapleton wrote: On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote: Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the various

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the various gubbins) from a BootX / miBoot

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:41:40PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: It does not surprise me at all. It is not the fault of Quik, it is simply that OF is completely broken on OldWorld PowerMacs. Those machines were never intended to be booted from

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 14:46, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: All that's missing for Wallstreets to boot from quik with accelerated video, it would seem, is a little video hardware initialisation; that step _should_ be derivable from the ATI documentation.

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Aye, agreed, although I'm not sure that it's _all_ done in the ROM, ISTR from poking about in the miBoot / BootX source a while back that it does a certain amount of video configuration itself. I wonder what OSX's BootX

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 15:33, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Aye, agreed, although I'm not sure that it's _all_ done in the ROM, ISTR from poking about in the miBoot / BootX source a while back

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Yeah, I was looking directly at pre_boot_ppc.c, which seems to be doing a bunch of register writes on ati cards. Apple's BootX seems to do pretty much everything through the forth interpreter, which makes it a bit tricksy

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-11 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:17, Ben Racher wrote: So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:17, Ben Racher wrote: So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video acceleration that is issued by quik when you first load the kernel. I've been using:

Quik and atyfb

2006-07-15 Thread Ben Racher
So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video acceleration that is issued by quik when you first load the kernel. I've been using: video=atyfb:vmode:16,cmode:32,mclk:67 However, it doesn't seem to