Graphics on RS/6000 with 7.1
I have successfully installed 7.1 on a IBM RS/6000 43P model 150, and it is running fine now. I had some problems at first but I have got most of them sorted now. My main consern is the graphics on the machine. I am not sure what graphics card is in the machine. I think it is a GXT2000p, but I don't know for certain. I never checked while AIX was on it, and there is nothing on the card that would point me in the right direction. there is a heatsink/fan glued on the chip, and I don't want to take that off. Now. The display is set to 1280X1024 - Perfect. the colour depth is 8 bit. I can live with that, but the refresh is 60hz. And that is pure pain. Specially on a 21" monitor :( It's running with the generic/OpenFirmware fb device, and i can't seem to change this.. Is there really no way of changing this? PS. using kernel 2.4.6 and X 4.10 Regards, Tor
On Mon, Aug 13, Tor wrote:
Can you paste the /sbin/lspci output? But I think that you have an unsupported card, the mga driver is not active and there is no way to change the resolution and refresh rate with the offb. dmesg | grep -Ci offb Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:04:53PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
/sbin/lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) 00:0d.0 Class ff00: IBM MPIC interrupt controller 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 04) 00:12.0 Token ring network controller: IBM 16/4 Token ring UTP/STP controller (rev 68) 00:16.0 VGA compatible controller: IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer [Fire GL1] (rev 02) 00:17.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 01) 01:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) dmesg | grep -Ci offb doesn't produce anything, but dmesg | grep fb produces this: PCI:00:16.0: Resource 1: fa000000-fbffffff (f=200) fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@80000000/display@16
On Tue, Aug 14, Tor wrote:
That means that the OF driver is active. There is no way to change the resolution. The only way to get a usable output is a ATI Rage 128 PCI card. I didnt try that yet, but it should work. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
It is fine if I can't change the resolution, but is there really no way of changing the refresh rate.. I can't live with 60Hz.. It's giving me headaches and everything.. Regards, Tor
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