Hello, this actually not really a SGI MIPS question, but a rather one about the SGI 320 VisWS, which is a dual PIII thing, but it shares a lot of the framebuffer code (sgivwfb.c) with the O2 one (gbefb.c) - and I'm writing this on an O2 with IRIX. We've still have such a beast here, and I'm trying to set up a baseline of required patches for current kernels in order to get a running configuration out of the box. Because gbefb was derived from sgivwfb somewhen back in 2002, it is therefore quite interesting to see how things are going on the MIPS side, as both gfx hardware implementations are supposed to be very similar (the visws one using hardware from O2 GBE). Currently, the only VisWS mode that works under X11 is Depth 15bit, using the 2 byte/16bit ARGB5 mode in sgivwfb.c, with 1280x1024 or higher with the 1600sw LCD panel. Surprisingly, Depth 16 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not completely OK anymore, perhaps due to problems with the transparency bit. Anything else like 24 or 8 bit looks decidedly odd, and hard to read at all. Namely 24/32bit is completely broken, the width of the display is only 2/3 of the screen, though timing is still OK. Back to the question: What mode(s) are usable on a Linux O2? Did 24bit work at ANY time on the O2? Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Joosten, SBS C-LAB, joost@xxxxxxxx Fuerstenallee 11, 33094 Paderborn, Germany Phone: +49 5251 606127, Fax: +49 5251 606065 C-LAB is a cooperation of University Paderborn & SIEMENS
