On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:35:21PM +0000, Shie Erlich wrote: > > hi people, > we're using hardhat with kernel 2.4.2. our system has a serial > port, through which we're using the serial console. > also, we have a PMC adapter on board, and we're trying to > use it with a VGA card. we took a PCI VGA card (ATI RAGEpro), > and attached it to the board, through a PCI2PMC adapter. > /proc/pci identifies the card, and also the framebuffer device > seems to recognize it, but all we get on screen is some green trash.
Let's step back and recognize who writes most of the commodity VGA card FB drivers in the kernel. x86 developers. That means that most of these drivers are incomplete for platforms that don't have an x86 BIOS to perform the chipset's core initialization. 99% of time this is due to having a driver that doesn't fully initialize the chipset. FWIW, a full xpert98 driver was submitted to the fb team but seems to have disappeared in all my searches. Regards, -- Matt Porter porter at cox.net This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
