Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 um 21:37:21 +0100: > Hi, > > I have two issues after switching from kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x > > Second: Problem with afbinit, which is needed to use AFB-based graphics > adaptor. /etc/init.d/afbinit tries to parse the output of dmesg to > determin which devices needs to be initialized. > 2.4: has this output: > fb0: Elite 3D at 000001fc00000000 type 39 DAC 0 > > 2.6: > ffb: AFB at 000001fc00000000 type 39 DAC 10 > > /etc/init.d/afbinit is looking for "Elite 3D" which is no longer > reported by 2.6. ok can be worked around, but 2.6 does no longer report > the devicename (fb0 in this example). > > Does anyone know a possibility to get the devicename?
After searching a while I found a solution. gentoo had a patch, so it should work now. the patch should appear on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250619 soon :-) One last question: anone using devfs or udev? How are the framebuffer-devices named? -- Jörg Friedrich There are only 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
