Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:34:29PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> 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....
Voodoo 3 and lower is fixed in the next kernel-image i will upload
voodoo 4 & 5 seem to be still broken though. I have seen patches
circulating on the fbdev mailing list though.
This is 2.4 though, 2.6 has a totally redesigned fbdve layer and new
drivers. I think radeonfb does not work yet with them, without patching
at least. Have not tried though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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