For the latest files you should register for a developer account with
AMD.

http://wwwd.amd.com/amd/developer.nsf

You can obtain the NSC kernel framebuffer driver with the gx1 here if
you don't want to wait. I'm sure there are other locations, but this
happened to be #1 in google.

http://www.dsl-ltd.co.uk/software/Maverick/Drivers/Video/Linux2.4.17Fb/

It will apply to any 2.4.17+ kernel.  But you'll need to edit the
Makefile in drivers/video/Makefile and add -DEXPORT_SYBTAB for it to
compile with 2.4.19+ I think.

X on a geode would be pretty horrible.

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:03 +0100, Matteo Piscitelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I didn't undestand what shall i do to make directfb work with an NSC 
> Geode chipset: shall I use vesafb, or I have to use a different kernel 
> framebuffer module? In standard 2.4.22 there isn't such a module.
> Second question: gtk-directfb, means I can use GTK applications without 
> X, or I have to use X anyway, and directfb is used *only* to obtain hw 
> acceleration?
> 
> Thanks all
> 
> 
> 



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