Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > looking at DFB's supported-hardware page
> >
> > http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FSupport%2FGraphics
>
>
> Well, ...
>
> I did some try with my xgi card, and even though i disabled hardware
> acceleration, this is a nogo. I ended up in a messed up text terminal (with
> black blocks and â chars for the box borders and shadow).
>
> So, it is clear that directfb needs not only the per-card drivers for
> acceleration, but also for normal usage.

You're talking about per-card framebuffer devices, not per-card DFB 
gfxdrivers, right?
On i386 the vesafb device can be used in place of card-specific fb 
devices and DFB will run unaccelerated on top of it.
Does a device driver equivalent to vesafb exists for PPCs?

> That said, i couldn't find any kind of directfb log or something, so maybe the
> above guess was bad, and something else funny happened, since that was with a
> 2.6.18 kernel.

Usually DFB produces some debug output on VT1, can you get any info there?

Attilio