PowerMac G4 graphics issue

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 29 16:38:49 UTC 2014


On 03/29/14 09:10, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2014 5:42 AM, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <danfe at 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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