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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] framebuffer
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:21:00 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Matrox:
>
> First I tried with the plain Bl2 kernel and insmodded all the
> fbcons and then matroxfb. It complained about 18 unresolved
> symbols, including what looked like 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit versions
> of the 2 and 4 modules. fb_con, and various other things as well.
>
> So then I tried the kernel you compiled and instead of complaining
> it crashed to a black screen.

Bummer.

> I might try this again in a year or two. Thanks for compiling the
> kernel and xfbdev. I hope they are helpful to other people who
> cannot use Xvesa. I might try the Matrox card in one computer for a
> while with vesafb (the computer where the S3 cards are not working
> right with resizecons or links2 svgalib - nothing to lose).

My kernel is duplicating functionality from other kernels, I'm not
so sure it's much more useful than others.

David

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