R128 on Mac Powerbook (Pismo)

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:02:35 -0500, Brian Victor <bhv1 at psu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 05:49:33PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:43:58 -0500, Brian Victor <bhv1 at psu.edu> wrote:
> >>   2) I attempted a dual head setup.  The cursor will move off the right
> >>      side of the screen, but the external display isn't getting a
> >>      signal.  However, using m3mirror does turn the external display on,
> >>      though of course in mirror mode rather than "spanned desktop."  Do
> >>      I need to do something to turn the external display on?
> >By default on ppc the r128 driver uses fbdev for mode setup.  you need
> >to explicitly turn it off with:
> >Option "UseFBDev" "false"
> >in both your device sections so that the driver can set the modes
> >itself.  Thanks for testing this!
> 
> Tried that and Xorg bailed with an error about being unable to read
> V_BIOS.  I put updated conf and log at the same url with .2 suffixes.
> 

hmmm... perhaps the r128 driver doesn't work on ppc without fbdev. 
Unfortunately I don't have the hardware to test.

> 
> 
> >> Log and conf files are at http://brianhv.org/xorgfiles/
> 
> --
> Brian
>