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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] framebuffer
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:19:49 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- 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.

I think this is because vesafb and matrox cannot both use the same kernel. The instructions in the Framebuffer HOWTO said to omit one of the things for vesafb when compiling for Matrox or ATI (vesa framebuffer support?).
I can look it up exactly if you want.

Bummer.
I did not expect it to work with that kernel.


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.

It is smaller and loads faster than the Slackware kernels. I could try to take your configuration and remove the vesafb part and compile for Matrox without modules, some day. And add vfat and cd-rom support. >
David

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