Paul Stuart wrote: > Well, not sure if you'll have similar issues, but the mysteries I had to > solve included: > > Directfb sends out an error that it can't support a particular ID, but it > really just can't find /dev/tty0. Makes sense, right? > > The directfbrc's "video-length" is fickle. Maybe someone else out there has > insight into this, but I've found that is has to be exactly 2x my resolution, > or the FBIOPAN fails, and/or when the buffer's flip it's messed up. This > makes sense when you get into the code, but it wasn't documented (as far as > I've seen). > > I'm doing this on a dm355, so I've had to disable the DSP acceleration > routines, but that's probably something you won't have to deal with. > > The biggest struggle has to do with Montavista vs Ti's distribution of the > kernel and patches for these. I needed to add ioctl's to our kernel to > support the calls the directfb driver makes. The patches were for Ti's > release, so they couldn't be directly applied. >
I see nothing changed, last time I run dfb on my dm6446 it took my days to find out just which kernel dfb supports and I wasn't the only one having troubles. > Anyway, wish you a smooth(er) path... > Thanks for your valuable information, obviously some of them will save me days. Regards, Caglar _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
