Re: XFree86-FBDev and /dev/fb0

[Andy Isaacson <adisaacs@mr-happy.com>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:27:33PM -0800, Ulf Carlsson wrote:
> > XFree86 has builtin support for this mode of operation in the latest
> > development snapshot (3.9.17).  They call it ShadowFB.  Of course that
> > would only work in X, not on console.  Apparently it's fairly easy to
> > write a driver that supports ShadowFB; all you have to be able to do
> > is update a rectangular area of the screen on demand.
> 
> Yeah, and that's what I tried to get working but I ran into other problems with
> the dynamic loading of X modules and stuff so I never got the chance to
> concentrate on the driver.  I have the early stages of a driver around though.

You're probably the first person to try the XFree86 loader code on
MIPS so it's not suprising you had trouble.  Try putting
"#define DoLoadableServer NO" in xc/config/cf/host.def; that way it'll
not try to use the loader at all.

-andy
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