Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:38:38 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris Bigguy <bigguy_40@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 graphics issue Message-ID: <5336F70E.9070806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHSQbTAy89HtJHfq1CmDGyygNwOVSh_19NnESgjvX1WhpdMDDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081108120019.440D2106570D@hub.freebsd.org> <762295.44650.qm@web33105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20140329105152.GA73812@FreeBSD.org> <20140329124227.GA22005@FreeBSD.org> <CAHSQbTAy89HtJHfq1CmDGyygNwOVSh_19NnESgjvX1WhpdMDDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/29/14 09:10, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Mar 29, 2014 5:42 AM, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:51:52AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >>> I'm still not quite there [to working X11 on Mac mini G4] yet, seeing > these >>> infamous lines in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log: >>> >>> [347050.379] (WW) xf86EnableIO 7 >>> [347050.379] (II) xf86EnableIO: ffffffff >>> [347050.379] (WW) Can't map IO space! >>> [347050.379] (EE) No devices detected. >>> >>> Advice about setting sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1 is not helpful since I >>> do not have this sysctl node. Any clues? >> Looks like `relax_mmap' is defined in powerpc/ofw/ofw_syscons.c, but I've >> removed "device sc" from kernel config in favor of "device vt". Does it >> mean that X11 + ATI card + Newcons is not supported yet? Can it be easily >> fixed, or I have to go back to syscons(4) for now? Thanks, >> >> ./danfe > Correct. Newcons+ofwfb+ATI in X11 doesn't work. You can try xf86-video-scfb > in ports to get X working with newcons for you, but you lose any hardware > acceleration that the ATI driver gives. > Does scfb actually work with VT on PPC? I thought it didn't. -Nathan
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