Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [FBDEV BK] Updates and fixes.

[James Simmons]

> > ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)
> 
> This is a r128 based chip, which lacks some of the proper support for
> LCD stuff (especially automatic retreival of the EDID from BIOS) that
> we have in radeonfb. If you feed the driver with a suitable mode, it
> should work

Oh. A Rage 128 chip with a LCD display. Then you are out of luck right 
now.

> I haven't yet checked which codebase is in there for rivafb, I have
> started collecting various patches around & doing my own fixes, I have
> a version here that works on PPC with GeForce2 & 4, though I still
> have problems with accel on the GeForce4. It's a 2.4 code base right
> now, I haven't had time to clean that up and release a patch though.
> 
> If 2.5 still has the old codebase, then GeForce4 isn't properly
> supported yet.

We it sort of is old but yet new. I did port alot of the code from 2.4.X. 
to the latest tree. I haven't ported "thee" latest patches tho.

> Note that if you have a flat panel, then the problem of properly
> retreiving the EDID to get a suitable default mode is also present
> there, unless James added some support for it.

It there but only for PPC platforms. Hopefully with the new fbmon.c code I 
will be able to have this work on ix86 very soon.