Why am I shocked?

Why am I shocked?

[Alan Grimes]

I must be insane.

I thought that /dev/fb0 was something that just worked... That simply 
gave an interface to the VESA 2 buffer or, if that fails, the standard 
VGA area. I was so smug in this assumption that I never bothered to 
question this and left the machine alone for months and months while I 
worked to port squeak ( www.squeak.org ) to it.

I felt uncomfortable letting such an amazingly powerful dual athlon go 
to waste so I went looking for a GUI for it....

After considerable effort I managed to get picogui compiled...

I try to do a test-run of the thing and quickly discover that my lowly 
old ATI Rage PRO Turbo based card was not supported at all! -- 
*incredible*. I had always known that leenooks was a piece of crap but 
this is astonishing!!!!

DOS games recognise the damn thing automaticly - No configuration of any 
kind required.

DOS programs have had the equivalent of framebuffer compatibility for 
twenty years now!! and _LEENOOKS_, An OS that is supposed to be superior 
in every way, simply does not support it!

I'll cut the kernel devels some slack because ATI is tight-lipped about 
the specs of its products but not supporting VESA 2 modes is flat-out 
_UNFORGIVABLE_.

What am I going to have to do, install windows XP pro on the thing??? =(



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Re: Why am I shocked?

[Ian Romanick]

Alan Grimes wrote:

> I'll cut the kernel devels some slack because ATI is tight-lipped about 
> the specs of its products but not supporting VESA 2 modes is flat-out 
> _UNFORGIVABLE_.

Time for a reality check.  AFAIK 99.9% of the work done on the fbcon 
drivers is done by people who are NOT PAID TO DO THAT WORK.  They are 
volunteers who do the work because they want to.  If having support for 
Vesa 2 modes is something that is so important to you, you should put 
your time where you mouth is instead of bashing people who have already 
given an awful lot! :)



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Re: Why am I shocked?

[Richard Drummond]

Hi Alan

On Monday 07 April 2003 13:56, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I try to do a test-run of the thing and quickly discover that my lowly
> old ATI Rage PRO Turbo based card was not supported at all! --
> *incredible*. I had always known that leenooks was a piece of crap but
> this is astonishing!!!!

Perhaps if you were less derisory then people might be more inclined to help 
you. You could also describe your problem in a bit more detail. The kernel 
atyfb driver supports most Rage Pro cards. I know because I have used it (at 
least in Kernel 2.4 - I can't vouch whether the driver has been ported to 2.5 
yet). Is this the driver you are trying to use? Or are you using the vesafb 
driver?

Cheers,
Rich



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