On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:55, Michael Schmitz wrote: > The tdfx driver would be for Voodoo3. Since you seem to get screen output, > the driver should be compiled in and used, it's just broken. To verify > this, look into /var/log/dmesg (and please compare the tdfx output with a > 2.4 kernel log to see if the 2.6 driver misdetects something). Then, > compare the 2.4 and 2.6 versions of tdfxfb.c. Try to set fb_fillrect, > fb_copyarea and fb_imageblit (in tdfxfb_ops) to NULL to use generic, > unaccelerated screen writes. Does this improve console output? Just a note, but when I was trying tdfx on powerpc (few years ago now, maybe 2 or 2.5) there were endianness issues so all the characters came out kinda mangled - was funny, but not useful. Hopefully things have been fixed now.... -- Stewart Smith (stewart@linux.org.au) Vice President, Linux Australia
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