1 ================= 2 What is aty128fb? 3 ================= 4 5 .. [This file is cloned from VesaFB/matroxfb] 6 7 This is a driver for a graphic framebuffer for ATI Rage128 based devices 8 on Intel and PPC boxes. 9 10 Advantages: 11 12 * It provides a nice large console (128 cols + 48 lines with 1024x768) 13 without using tiny, unreadable fonts. 14 * You can run XF68_FBDev on top of /dev/fb0 15 * Most important: boot logo :-) 16 17 Disadvantages: 18 19 * graphic mode is slower than text mode... but you should not notice 20 if you use same resolution as you used in textmode. 21 * still experimental. 22 23 24 How to use it? 25 ============== 26 27 Switching modes is done using the video=aty128fb:<resolution>... modedb 28 boot parameter or using `fbset` program. 29 30 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst for more information on modedb 31 resolutions. 32 33 You should compile in both vgacon (to boot if you remove your Rage128 from 34 box) and aty128fb (for graphics mode). You should not compile-in vesafb 35 unless you have primary display on non-Rage128 VBE2.0 device (see 36 Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst for details). 37 38 39 X11 40 === 41 42 XF68_FBDev should generally work fine, but it is non-accelerated. As of 43 this document, 8 and 32bpp works fine. There have been palette issues 44 when switching from X to console and back to X. You will have to restart 45 X to fix this. 46 47 48 Configuration 49 ============= 50 51 You can pass kernel command line options to vesafb with 52 `video=aty128fb:option1,option2:value2,option3` (multiple options should 53 be separated by comma, values are separated from options by `:`). 54 Accepted options: 55 56 ========= ======================================================= 57 noaccel do not use acceleration engine. It is default. 58 accel use acceleration engine. Not finished. 59 vmode:x chooses PowerMacintosh video mode <x>. Deprecated. 60 cmode:x chooses PowerMacintosh colour mode <x>. Deprecated. 61 <XxX@X> selects startup videomode. See modedb.txt for detailed 62 explanation. Default is 640x480x8bpp. 63 ========= ======================================================= 64 65 66 Limitations 67 =========== 68 69 There are known and unknown bugs, features and misfeatures. 70 Currently there are following known bugs: 71 72 - This driver is still experimental and is not finished. Too many 73 bugs/errata to list here. 74 75 Brad Douglas <brad@neruo.com>
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