On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:13:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> > looking at DFB's supported-hardware page
> >
> > http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FSupport%2FGraphics
>
> Well, ...
>
> I did some try with my xgi card, and even though i disabled hardware
> acceleration, this is a nogo. I ended up in a messed up text terminal (with
> black blocks and รข chars for the box borders and shadow).
>
> So, it is clear that directfb needs not only the per-card drivers for
> acceleration, but also for normal usage.
>
> That said, i couldn't find any kind of directfb log or something, so maybe the
> above guess was bad, and something else funny happened, since that was with a
> 2.6.18 kernel.
DirectFB only supports :
FB_ACCEL_SIS_GLAMOUR_2
FB_ACCEL_SIS_XABRE
While my card is :
FB_ACCEL_XGI_VOLARI_V
But that is only for accel. I didn't find where the pci ids are checked, but
maybe this is related to the sis->xgi vendor id change.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
