Anyone had any experience using the kernel's plain vesa framebuffer driver for the GX1 instead of nationals specific driver? If you did this could you still use the accelerated geode driver on top of it?
thanks On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 06:54, suriya mohan wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 Peter Gasper wrote : > >What does the newest directFB with geode support require in the kernel > >to work? I assume the kernel needs framebuffer enabled, but what of > the > >framebuffer drivers? Does it need the geode specific framebuffer > driver, > >or just some generic driver? > > No generic driver. A relevant framebuffer Graphics device driver for > the GX1,SC1200 series and GX2(RedCloud) processors is available at > www.national.com developed by Sarma Kolluru. > > The driver works with the National linux graphics driver architecture. > It has been tested with Linux Kernel 2.4.17. > It may not work with other kernel versions. > -- Peter Gasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
