radeon/r128 patches

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 23 06:09:57 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:07 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:35:32 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:35 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 
> > > > My eyes are actually better off at 1280x1024 anyway, and the scale is
> > > > more comparable with 1152x768 on the LCD anyway so it is no biggy. It
> > > > could just be the monitor (I will see if it repeats with my Sony E500 at
> > > > work).
> > >
> > > It may be a bandwidth issue.  the mobility r128 perhaps can't quite
> > > drive the display at that resolution or maybe the vga port hardware
> > > wasn't designed to handle it.  Can MacOS handle it?
> > 
> > Either that, or it is a problem with the setting of the external TMDS
> > transmitter...
> > 
> 
> did the r128 powerbooks have a DVI port on them?  I just assumed they
> were all VGA ports.  If so the code will need some work to handle tmds
> on crtc2.  right now it just defaults to crt.

They are all VGA/analog, but again, I think some desktop cards were dual
head ...

Ben.





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