From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: O.Waller@ee.qub.ac.uk
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: matroxfb, anybody?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:46:30 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812172146.WAA00356@piglet.cpu.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.02A.9812151054230.11112-100000@myst.ee.qub.ac.uk>
On 15 Dec, this message from Owen Waller echoed through cyberspace:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Michel Lanners wrote:
>
>> Anybody successfull in running matroxfb with recent vger kernels?
>
> I've got it running on version 2.1.127 - I haven't tried on anything more
> recent. What kernel version are you running.
2.1.130. What I hate most is it doesn't complete the PCI scan
routine.... maybe a simple bug very early in the init code?
....
>> aborts (slightly older matroxfb.c (1.6c)) or hangs the system (most
>> recent matroxfb.c (1.8)).
>
> Pass, have you asked Petr (Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>) about
> this. I've been testing Petr's driver on a Mystique and haven't seen
> anything like this.
Not yet...
>> I've also tried to compile-in matroxfb without controlfb, but that
>> failed because offb.c wasn't in (undefined ref to console_getmode et
>
> Generally I've compiled in matroxfb, controlfb and offb into the kernel
> which compile and run without any problems. I haven't tried leaving
> controlfb out.
This is exactly what I need... I'd like to use matrox alongside control
(have my TV on a second monitor ;-)
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-17 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-13 10:40 matroxfb, anybody? Michel Lanners
1998-12-15 12:00 ` Owen Waller
1998-12-17 21:46 ` Michel Lanners [this message]
1999-01-30 10:00 ` dhiltgen@toocool.calpoly.edu
1999-01-30 12:09 ` Matt McLean
1999-01-30 15:32 ` Owen Waller
1999-01-30 23:34 ` matroxfb, anybody? (More details...) dhiltgen@toocool.calpoly.edu
1999-01-31 9:38 ` Gerd Knorr
1999-01-31 14:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-02-06 15:22 ` Gerd Knorr
1999-01-31 14:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1998-12-16 4:42 ` matroxfb, anybody? Troy Benjegerdes
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