Hi, old programmer here, but new to linux and hardware side. I have a custom developed MPC8560 freescale processor board w/ 3 PCI slots. I would like to add one pci video board and get something to display on my LCD at 800x600, 16bbp res.
I have 3 video board choices right now: NVidia GeForceMX 4000, ATI 128RagePro, ATI Radeon 9250, all PCI. Keep in mind I need to cross-compile anything I add to this board, so I can't use any newer ATI or NVidia proprietary drivers. I'm also new to cross-compiling in general, so its taking a bit of time just to get X compiled to the PPC. When booting the kernel, I first notice no /dev/fb or /dev/fb0, etc. These cmds do not produce a fb: modprobe nvidiafb modprobe radeonfb This does: modprobe vga16fb but I can' do a: fbset -g 800 600 800 600 16 on i, it hangs. The vga16fb loaded, but seg faulted as well, although it did make a /dev/fb0 that I can do fbset -i on? So I move on to get the X server running anyway, as it shou work with no fb. No luck? I've tried to just start it up with: X -allowMouseOpenFail notice I don't yet have a mouse. I want to eventually ue the touch screen as my only pointer, but that will happen later I assume, just want to see stuff on the LCD first. Stuff like: lspci -vvv seem to work fine, and report back seemingly good info. Thoughts? Thanks. - Mel -- Mel Davey CAC 37 Soundview Road Guilford, CT 06437 860-961-8989 (mobile)
