Re: ATI TV-OUT support ?

>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in using TV-out with an ATI driver ?
>> If so, which software is recommended (NetBSD version and XFree/Xorg) ?
>> And what are the magical X.conf parameters ?
>
> For ATI TV-out, you want to be using xf86-video-ati from upstream, or
> maybe one of their recent release candidates  (6.7.195 or newer). Then
> it should be automatically configured, or configurable at runtime with
> xrandr.
>

Thanks Eric.
I've just tried wip/xf86-video-ati (6.7.191) and it works OK 
I've also been googled to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
which explains very well how to handle TV-out.

Regards,
   Jo

Re: Firefox crashes.

Hi,

I didn't see any resolution to your post. my experience may assist in 
solving it.

upgrading my 4Beta2 system from January daily to a daily from Oct 31 
solved my problem. I was quite careful in tracking each change I made to 
the system. Nothing worked until that change.

NetBSD magnet.clubs 4.0_RC3 NetBSD 4.0_RC3 (XEN3_DOM0) #0: Wed Oct 31 
16:16:01 PDT 2007

builds <at> wb34:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/i386/200710310002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOM0 
i386

I have used almost every 2.0.0.x release on NetBSD and they made no 
change. About 2.0.0.7 firefox I resolved to look into it further. I 
upgraded to 2.0.0.8 and it made no difference. I then upgraded my kernel 
and userland to a more recent daily and the problem went away. Im using 
the system packages for X11 not modular.

switching images off or increasing the limits only made marginal 
improvements. disabling all plugins/add-ons or running in safe mode made 
no change.

I have to think that even if the fault was/is in firefox, the failures 
were caused by an interaction with x11 or userland libraries and no 
other pkgsrc package.

Simon

DRM on 4.99.42 i386

To get this running again, I had to slightly modify the patch from
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2007/10/08/0002.html with the
attached patch.

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Re: DRM on 4.99.42 i386

I have a slight improvement (attached) for anyone who would like
to try it out.

> To get this running again, I had to slightly modify the patch from
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2007/10/08/0002.html with the
> attached patch.

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Yorick Hardy

--- sys/dev/drm/drm_drv.c.orig	2007-11-26 09:18:51.000000000 +0200
+++ sys/dev/drm/drm_drv.c	2007-11-27 12:33:43.000000000 +0200
 <at>  <at>  -166,6 +166,7  <at>  <at> 
 	int unit;
 	drm_device_t *dev;
 	drm_pci_id_list_t *id_entry;
+	struct agp_softc *agpsc = (struct agp_softc *)agp_find_device(0);

         if(init_units)
 	{
 <at>  <at>  -224,6 +225,26  <at>  <at> 
 		}
 		if(dev->pci_map_data[unit].maptype == PCI_MAPREG_TYPE_MEM)
 			dev->pci_map_data[unit].flags |= BUS_SPACE_MAP_LINEAR;
+		if(dev->pci_map_data[unit].maptype
+			== (PCI_MAPREG_TYPE_MEM | PCI_MAPREG_MEM_TYPE_64BIT))
+			dev->pci_map_data[unit].flags |= BUS_SPACE_MAP_LINEAR;