Re: matroxfb on SMP alpha

[Peter Petrakis <voodoo@alphadriven.org>]

> Eureka!  It works!

Outstanding!!!

> The basic problem all along seems to be that fbdev sucks on alpha.  It
> seems that any and all graphics operations don't work on the alpha (if
> someone else knows otherwise, please do tell).  None of the various
> applications I could find that wrote to the framebuffer were able to
> display anything, including fbtv, fbi, mplayer, fbgs, ggi, svgalib, 
> sdl,
> ...

directfb works.



> Confusingly, I no longer have boot penguins.  But the VGA console still
> works and I can start X, now that the card is in the other slot.  And
> who cares about fbdev when you have X?  Also the "Devsel" error 
> messages
> I posted earlier are gone.

:)

> I briefly put a Matrox Milennium II in the CS20, and it DID display the
> video BIOS screen on bootup.  The Marvel G200 I have does not, however.
> Maybe it's the card itself.

Don't  know what to tell you. Are you running the marvel now and able 
to get
a video signal?

Peter