Re: Tiresome not-even-newbie question

[Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> ATI Rage Mobility LM, 4MB.

That works in 4.0.2.  My laptop has a LT, same driver, rock solid.

> The problem I'm seeing is that the framebuffer seems to be out of sync
> with the built-in panel.  This applies to both the VGA16 framebuffer
> support in the kernel (the bottom line trails a few pixels off the
> bottom of the screen) and the Mach64 XF86 4.0.2 driver (which trails a
> few pixels off the top and leaves a white bar at the bottom).

Hmmm.  The ati driver in 4.0.2 should be deriving the timing from the
DDC info supplied by the panel.  Sounds like your config file is overriding
the timings.  Blow away all ModeLines and try again ...

> I am not impressed with wscons, it seems to have been designed on the
> fly by HJL (well, maybe that's going too far...).

*snicker*

> How do you get NetBSD to recognize other (physical) partitions?  I'd
> like to mount my Windose and ext2 partitions from NetBSD.  Didn't see
> anything in the FAQ (but I admit I didn't look very hard).

I've not discovered how to make NetBSD recognize things beyond its own
disklabel, but I have found a workaround:

* install mtools
* set a drive in mtools.conf using device /dev/rsd0d (or whatever) and
  the magic "partition=X" directive

> What do you need to get XF86 4.x on NetBSD?

The source code ;)

> I hate it when you do that.  Why does the Prince of Darkness own the
> soul of the i81x?

The i81x series uses core for its video RAM.  Requires really nasty
kernel-space stuff to properly support it -- i.e., agpart.  PI did a linux
driver, nothing has yet been forthcoming for *BSD.

-- Chris