From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tentakel.fischlustig.de (pD900140D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.0.20.13]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 20870482A for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 18:00:23 -0600 (MDT) Sender: andi@dsl2.external.hp.com Message-ID: <3AF8888C.A8AB2BC9@fischlustig.de> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 02:00:12 +0200 From: Andi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] framebuffer drivers, sound References: <3AF878EA.3F043FD7@fischlustig.de> <20010509004136.R4917@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:53:31AM +0200, Andi wrote: > > The stifb driver is working for me, but the colors are completely wrong > > and the > > system crashes if i try to cat /dev/fb0. > > Yup, the stifb is buggy. Please, if you have time, it would be great > if you could help clean it up and get it working. I hope that I will find the time, but I cant promise anything. > sticon works rather > better but it is still not great. well, sticon has correct colors, but works worse than stifb (swiching a vt does not redraw the whole screen, dselect is not usable ...) > The STI docs are publically available > from the documentation page. Yeah, the STI docs.... HP should release the hardware level docs, this is the only way to implement a full featured fbdev driver. A stifb would still be usefull since it is works for every HP gfxcard with STI BIOS, but a special driver for each gfxcard would be nice to have things like mode switching. Andreas - "I want color recovery!!!" ;-)