Re: debian sparc framebuffer problem

["gabriel borrageiro" <gborrageiro@hotmail.com>]

Michel,

thx for your suggestion, I am now working using sunffb! I did'nt realise 
this was the correct device.

best regards,

Gabriel




> From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
> To: gabriel borrageiro <gborrageiro@hotmail.com>
> CC: debian-x@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: debian sparc framebuffer problem
> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:19:11 +0200
>
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:58 +0000, gabriel borrageiro wrote:
> >
> > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument
>
> This looks like the framebuffer device may not support this ioctl
> properly.
>
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> That may not be the cause of the crash though, and it's a bug in the
> fbdev driver at any rate. Couldn't you use the sunffb driver though?
>
>
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