I tried the patch on OMAP4 board. I rebuilt the package. it works, X starts fine and the omapfb driver is selected.
$ grep -i omapfb /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: "omapfb" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/omapfb_drv.so (II) Module omapfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (==) Matched omapfb as autoconfigured driver 0 (II) LoadModule: "omapfb" (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/omapfb_drv.so (II) UnloadModule: "omapfb" (II) Failed to load module "omapfb" (already loaded, 600000) (II) omapfb: Driver for OMAP framebuffer (omapfb) and external LCD controllers: (WW) Falling back to old probe method for OMAPFB (WW) Error opening /sys/devices/platform/omapfb/ctrl/name: No such file or directory (II) omapfb(0): VideoRAM: 5120KiB (SDRAM) (II) omapfb(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section (--) omapfb(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) omapfb(0): RGB weight 888 (==) omapfb(0): Default visual is TrueColor (--) omapfb(0): Virtual size is 864x480 (pitch 864) (**) omapfb(0): Built-in mode "current" -- xserver-xorg-video-omap* fail due to no /dev/fb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567260 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs