On 15-Jan-2003 David Gibson wrote: > Indeed.. however I did find that the folks from Silicon Motion seemed > to be reasonably willing to help with finding the necessary frobbing > to do.
we had mixed response, but had to find the key regs ourselves. > > I'm a bit surprised that lynxfb.c plus XFree wasn't enough to work for > you (well, after modifying the Icebox specific parts), but it was > pretty flaky, so I'm not all that surprised. From memory, it > shouldn't be a really big job to make lynxfb.c a bit more solid, and > even make it work as a proper kernel framebuffer driver, but it worked > enough for my purposes so I never got around to it (plus that would > have meant figuring out the baroque intricacies of the fbdev > interface). FWIW I have a flaky fb-based console driver for the Lynx3DM. It works as far as running the X server, but doesn't restore correctly when X exits. Virtual terminals work on it. There are a few specifics to our card in it, but you're welcome to it as it stands. I am planning to make PPCBoot put the Lynx3DM into a basic VGA mode and then try the linux generic VGA driver. Comments any one? Mark -- Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer, Primagraphics Limited New Cambridge House, Litlington, nr.Royston, Herts, SG8 0SS, UK Tel. +44 1763 852222, Fax. 853324, medp at primagraphics.co.uk, http://www.primagraphics.co.uk ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
