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  • Subject: Re: [BL] ATI RAGE 264GT PCI video card now usable with fb and xfbdev for X
  • Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:37:49 +1300

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Has anyone on this list used svgalib with a mach64 chip?

I have mach64 video on my main computer. I just
booted BL1 and orb, minesweeper, etc. work fine.

> There are warnings about destroying your hardware
> with the wrong settings.

I only ran the vgalib applications for a couple of
minutes. No smoke, so far. :-)

> I am supposed to probe for clock settings - how?

I didn't. I just booted the ramdisk BL1 and executed: fun

> But my partner likes zgv, which NEEDS svgalib.

Will his version of zgv work with BL1? You could make
a wee BL1 ramdisk with zgv just for him. It would even
be possible to bypass the login and go straight to zgv.
Or perhaps you'd rather use chroot?

Cheers,
Steven




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