Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932112AbVJHOzj (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:55:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932146AbVJHOzj (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:55:39 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:21913 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932112AbVJHOzi (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:55:38 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: Modular i810fb broken, partial fix Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:51:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1pfuqilz0eim.1n6ig5c3s2r3.dlg@40tude.net> References: <200510071547.14616.bero@arklinux.org> <4347A1E7.2050201@pol.net> <1308gutgj0dx4$.1ie66adezdlua$.dlg@40tude.net> <4347C393.5090304@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-84-220-51-179.cust-adsl.tiscali.it User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 34 On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:03:15 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > 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. And does fbcon make sense *without* fbdevs? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta "Da grande lotter? per la pace" "A me me la compra il mio babbo" (Altan) ("When I grow up, I will fight for peace" "I'll have my daddy buy it for me") - 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/