On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Aurora needs framebuffer support. For a self-compiled kernel, i suppose
> this means VESA framebuffer ? And is there a need for any special
> low-level driver, or anything else beyond CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_FB_VESA ?
>
Aurora will (only?) work with the VESA framebuffer, when it uses the
framebuffer. Any other driver won't fit (however, this is not tested with, for
example, matroxfb). The problem is that when you want to mmap() the framebuffer
to memory, you have to specify an offset which is dependant upon the card.
Vesafb does not need such an offset, you can just put 0 and it works. This is
not the case with, say, atyfb. Agreed, this is a kludge.
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