On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 23:04 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:33 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > > So, my question is: what are the uses of N800's display with the > > mainline kernel? Are we happy with just having basic display > > functionality, or do people need all the features in the older blizzard > > driver? > > Well, not sure. > The OpenWRT project runs an X server on the n810. > It does so by using the X.org "omapfb" driver module, which > accesses the hardware through /dev/fb0. > http://git.pingu.fi/xf86-video-omapfb/ > > So we basically need that to work in one way or another. > Another thing that we require is turning off the display for > power saving reasons. We currently do this through > FBIOBLANK ioctl with parameters FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN/FB_BLANK_UNBLANK. > (The backlight is turned off by other means with the device asic)
Oh and we currently run the framebuffer in auto-update mode. I don't have any idea what would be needed to get it working in manual update mode. -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
