From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:36:49 -0500 (EST)

Re: ATI Mach64, XGGI ...

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, GGI Mailinglist wrote:

> > > no the FBIOPUTCMAP-ioctl as found in the fb-header files in the
> > > kernelsource
> > 
> > First is this the native kernel driver or kgicon?
> 
> KGIcon

Have you tried the native ATI kernel driver. I want to see if its a
possible problem with the card or a KGIcon driver problem.

> 640x400 with 8bpp
> 
> I need only 16 Colors, so why should i use Modes like Truecolor (24 Bit)
> or HiColor (15/16 Bit).

Just explaining the purpose of fbcmap. Sometimes people misunderstand
fbcmap.

> I only wanted to know, why the KGI Driver for the cl5464 has no problems
> to change the colorpalette via ioctl(fb_descriptor, FBIOPUTCMAP,
> color_map) and why the KGI Driver for the ATI Mach64 Driver HAS problems
> to do it, both are working at the same mode, and i used the same program,
> from which i extracted the code snippets showed in my mail above.
> 
> karsten

Try the native ATI driver to se if its the KGIcon driver. Which ATI card
do you specifically have?

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