2003-01-14 17:24:58

by Ralf Hildebrandt

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Subject: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?

Which framebuffer works with a:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at ebf80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

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2003-01-14 18:17:22

by Joshua Kwan

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Subject: Re: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?

Try rivafb, but I hear it is broken in 2.5 :)

Regards
Josh

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Which framebuffer works with a:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
> Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Memory at ebf80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
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2003-01-14 20:05:18

by Bruno Ducrot

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Subject: Re: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:25:56AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Try rivafb, but I hear it is broken in 2.5 :)

Sound like to be broken..

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Which framebuffer works with a:
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
> > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
> > Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> > Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > Memory at ebf80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
> > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> > Capabilities: <available only to root>
> >

There were patch around for 2.4. Search for Paul Richards on lkml, or
apply this one (Richards version diffed against 2.4.21-pre3).

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2003-01-15 00:30:26

by James Simmons

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Subject: Re: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?


> > Try rivafb, but I hear it is broken in 2.5 :)
>
> Sound like to be broken..

I have new patches at http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz.

> There were patch around for 2.4. Search for Paul Richards on lkml, or
> apply this one (Richards version diffed against 2.4.21-pre3).

The above patch is basiclly his ported to the new api.

2003-01-15 15:21:47

by Ralf Hildebrandt

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Subject: Re: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?

* Joshua Kwan <[email protected]>:

> Try rivafb, but I hear it is broken in 2.5 :)

Nevermind, I'm not mentally 2.5.x ready anyway. I'll stick to
2.4.21-sumthin

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