From: Ray Glendenning <ray@hackery.demon.co.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:41:40 +0100 (BST)

Re: Problems with ATI Mach64 Driver...

Hi

I've got a xpert@work (4MB PCI) and I'm seeing exactly the same problem (I
would help out but ATI wouldn't give me any docs *8-( ).  Also the Virge
driver locks my machine solid (4MB Virge DX), but I have the virge
(original) docs.  My machine is a Gigabyte GA-586DX with 2x200MMX cpus and
64MB RAM, so I would be willing to do any SMP testing, if only I could get
UP working correctly.

By the way, sorry I haven't ben around much since about November, but it's
good to be back *8-)

See ya

Ray Glendenning


On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Peter Hawkins wrote:

> Hi there...
> Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> > Peter Hawkins writes:
> >
> > >  Hi there...
> > >  Andrew Apted wrote:
> > >
> > >  > insmod fbcon-cfb8 ?
> > >
> > >  Same error. I hadn't inserted it or compiled it before. Tried compiling
> > >  cfb[2-8] and mfb into kernel. Same error. Tried compiling them all as
> > >  modules and inserting them all. Same error. Any ideas?
> >
> > OK I just realized the problem.  First you have to enable support in the
> > kernel for the cfb* (etc) and probably have them compiled into the
> > kernel (I hadn't tried them as modules myself).  Second, remake the
> > kgicon.o module (`make clean ; make') which will add the necessary code.
> >
> > This happens because we do "#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB8" in fbcon-kgi.c, which
> > makes it _compile time_ dependent on those options being enabled.
> > Whether this should be changed, I'm not sure yet (other fbcon low-level
> > drivers do it this way too).
> >
> Ok, yep, cool that worked. Could someone stick this in the docs? Thanks.
> 
> Now for the next problem. The modules all insert fine. I insert all the
> fbcon-cfb*.o, fbcon-vga, and fbcon-mfb modules, then kgicon.o. No errors this
> time.
> The display changes modes to what looks like 640x480 from what I can see of
> it. The problem is that on each line only the characters after about column
> 10 display. I think (from the few lines I could see anything of), that after
> another 10 columns or so, the pattern repeated itself (ie. 10 blank columns,
> and the second 10 columns again).
> 
> Any ideas **now**? :-)
> Specs are again:
> ATI Xpert@Work 4mb AGP (ATI Rage 3d pro, rev 92)
> 
> Peter
> 
>