Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932098AbVJHND3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:03:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932111AbVJHND3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:03:29 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.201]:47522 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932098AbVJHND2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:03:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Eu2K4D24w1OpPVsc/e/13uB62W66snNRkYp5rYenSOHz1ZcpOC5oRGc1HfQSNMVm0OrL87YOrbF8ysDEYTid4WGTKzSFoxRqa6rpmTC7qom7cCYG3amUGU/Wh8F+WI5O0oYjgGp35H2kQ41d8EMqa9C455Kt4edq5Ss84e9sODY= Message-ID: <4347C393.5090304@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:03:15 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giuseppe Bilotta CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Modular i810fb broken, partial fix References: <200510071547.14616.bero@arklinux.org> <4347A1E7.2050201@pol.net> <1308gutgj0dx4$.1ie66adezdlua$.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <1308gutgj0dx4$.1ie66adezdlua$.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1160 Lines: 28 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:39:35 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > >> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >>> Hi, >>> i810fb as a module is broken (checked with 2.6.13-mm3 and 2.6.14-rc2-mm1). >>> It compiles, but the module doesn't actually load because the kernel doesn't >>> recognize the hardware (the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE statement is missing). >>> The attached patch fixes this. >>> >>> However, the resulting module still doesn't work. >>> It loads, and then garbles the display (black screen with a couple of yellow >>> lines, no matter what is written into the framebuffer device). >> Did you compile CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE statically, or did a modprobe fbcon? >> Does i810fb work if compiled statically? > > Since this is *really* coming out often: is there a specific reason > why the fb modules do not depend on fbcon? > Some need fbdev only, without fbcon, ie, embedded. 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/