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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Tridentfb updates?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:13:52 +0100
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Josh Myer <jbm@joshisanerd.com>, Linux Frame Buffer Device Development <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, Nov 25 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:49, Josh Myer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> > have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
> > less-than-enlightening (I'm not familiar with X internals).
> > 
> > I'm basically just interested in getting FB working for NTSC output.
> 
> The chipset docs are freely downloadable from VIA (including the 3d
> info). The TV on the epia is a seperate chip. I use the vesa mode switch
> to program that

For the record, a friend of mine pointed me to:

http://epiafb.sourceforge.net/

today. fb sort of works, the mode initialization doesn't get the mode
quite right it seems, but a manual fbset works for me afterwards.

-- 
Jens Axboe