[directfb-users] Re: New Member - now working

[Stuart Felenstein]

I don't care much about the viafb driver.  It's part of the epia patch and I built it as a module.  The driver I'm speaking about is the cle266vgaio.o.  I built it by first enabling fb in the kernel.  Second grabbing cle266vgaio.c and cle266vgaio.mk from the gfxdrivers directory.  Built for v24-static. 

It built fine and modprobe is fine, but depmod -e reveals some dependency issues.  I could include the depmod returns in an email, but I'm assuming (could be wrong) they are there because I haven't installed the entire package?

 

Stuart

Denis Oliver Kropp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hmm, the viafb from http://epia.kalf.org/epia_kernel/patch-2.4.24-epia1.gz
doesn't export MMIO regions and accelerator ID, so it still won't work with
the DirectFB driver.

> There is also a viafb module available from directfb.org. It is modified
> from VIA's one. Some found it unstable. I suggest you use the -epia
> kernel patch by IamtheOne at . He
> tested the various patches needed for the epia board and thus the
> stability is better.

The viafb from directfb.org should be stable. But there was a crash (fixed)
with older gcc versions.

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Denis Oliver Kropp

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