Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263769AbUJ3A3C (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:29:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263751AbUJ3A2t (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:28:49 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.61]:65495 "EHLO smtp-out.hotpop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263740AbUJ3AZy (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:25:54 -0400 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mark Fortescue , jsimmons@infradead.org, geert@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:25:47 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410300825.47096.adaplas@hotpop.com> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1342 Lines: 34 On Saturday 30 October 2004 02:22, Mark Fortescue wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been trying to get a CG3 sparc clone up and running with linux. > Under 2.2.26, the console is fine. During the development of the > 2.5.x/2.6.x frame buffer system the CG3 support got broken. I have managed > to track done one of the problems (the blanking code had some typing > errors in it) and this gave me a logo + black screen and cursor using a > linux-2.2.8.1 kernel. Still no console text. > > Given that 2.2.10-rc1-bk6 is available, I have downloaded and applied the > appropriate patches and made some additional mods to keep the > compiler/linker happy. Now I have a black console, no text, logo or cursor > and if I redirect the console output to a serial port I get the following: I'm assuming 2.6.10-rc1-bk6... Make sure you correctly fill up the red, green, blue, and transp fields in all->info.var. You can do it in sbufsfb_fill_var, or somewhere within cg3.c before the register_framebuffer() part. As a reminder, info->var and info->fix must be valid prior to framebuffer registration. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/