[parisc-linux] RTC and FB on 735/125

[Steve Pacenka]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:36, Yves Bodack wrote:
> hi steve,
> great, this did the trick. thank's a lot. it's quite slow, but it works in
> true color :)

Yves,

It's faster than the Macintosh Quadra 610 (another Linux victim) that
I'm typing on now :^) .

Could you please post your experience at getting X applications to work
now that you have X and a desktop?  I got basic gnome things to work
flawlessly, but failed on my 735/99 with xmms, xemacs, and galeon or
mozilla.


The CRX24 framebuffer also works at 8 bit color, a bit faster.  A minor
patch to one file in the kernel is needed (duplicating a few lines that
apply to another card's depth selection in the same file) and a kernel
boot argument is needed to (optionally) cause the kernel to start video
in 8 bit mode instead of the default 32.  

The hard drive I patched this on is recycled into another type of box,
but Helge Deller can guess what's needed just from this description.

-- regards, SP

> 
> greetings yves...
> 
> 
> From: "Steve Pacenka" <spacenka@lightlink.com>
> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] RTC and FB on 735/125
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 17:37, Yves Bodack wrote:
> > > replying to myself ...
> > >
> > > > and with 8 bpp it says:
> > > >
> > > > (EE) FBDev(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "Default
> Screen"
> > > for
> > > > depth/fbbpp 24/24
> > > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > no screens found
> > >
> > > same with 16 or 32 bpp :(
> >
> >
> > Try the following in XF86Config-4
> >
> > Section Screen
> >    ... (whatever else you need here) ...
> >
> >    DefaultDepth 24
> >    DefaultFbBpp 32
> >
> >    SubSection Display
> >       Depth 24
> >       Modes "1280x1024"
> >    EndSubSection
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> > -- SP
> 
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