Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:40:50 -0700 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris Bigguy <bigguy_40@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 graphics issue Message-ID: <20140329104050.2d7fc4df@zhabar.att.net> In-Reply-To: <5336F70E.9070806@freebsd.org> 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> <5336F70E.9070806@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:38:38 -0700 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > I don't know, but from what I understand it's the only option with vt(4). - Justin
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