Bug 8500 - The ati driver assumes that PPC open firmware data is a video bios.
Summary: The ati driver assumes that PPC open firmware data is a video bios.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware: PowerPC Linux (All)
: high blocker
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2006-10-03 16:47 UTC by David Gurvich
Modified: 2006-10-04 00:11 UTC (History)
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Description David Gurvich 2006-10-03 16:47:25 UTC 
The OF data is used as vesa bios data, generating spurious values for the 
driver.  There is a patch that does some sanity checking here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146706
Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2006-10-04 00:11:42 UTC 
Fixed in xf86-video-ati 6.6.3.

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