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:
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?
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:
On Mon, Aug 13, Tor wrote:
I have successfully installed 7.1 on a IBM RS/6000 43P model 150, and it 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?
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...
/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:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:04:53PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, Tor wrote:
I have successfully installed 7.1 on a IBM RS/6000 43P model 150, and it 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?
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...
00:16.0 VGA compatible controller: IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer [Fire GL1] (rev 02)
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
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:
On Tue, Aug 14, Tor wrote:
00:16.0 VGA compatible controller: IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer [Fire GL1] (rev 02)
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
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...
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
On Tue, Aug 14, Tor 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..
You cant change anything with OFfb, no colordepth, no resolution, no refresh rate... Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:16:19PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, Tor 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..
You cant change anything with OFfb, no colordepth, no resolution, no refresh rate...
Gruss Olaf
Oh well, thanks anyway. Except from this I must say suse runs very well on this macine.. It's a joy, and I am having lots of fun. :)
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