From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:31:04 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:62308 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:30:46 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id SAA19580; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:27:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA69874 for linux-list; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:24:26 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA76476 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:24:22 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adisaacs@mr-happy.com) Received: from brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (brainguy.tc.mtu.edu [141.219.5.85]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA09240 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:24:20 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adisaacs@mr-happy.com) Received: from crow.mr-happy.com (crow.mr-happy.com [172.19.3.81]) by brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7/mtumailer-1.2) with ESMTP id VAA00631 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:24:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from adisaacs@localhost) by crow.mr-happy.com (8.9.1b+Sun/HappyClient) id VAA16932 for linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:24:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:24:18 -0500 From: Andy Isaacson To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFree86-FBDev and /dev/fb0 Message-ID: <20000105212418.A16875@mr-happy.com> References: <20000105201719.A16821@mr-happy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://web.mr-happy.com/~adisaacs/pgp.txt Sender: owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linuxmips-outgoing 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 -- Andy Isaacson http://web.mr-happy.com/~adisaacs/ Fight Spam, join CAUCE: adi@acm.org adisaacs@mr-happy.com isaacson@cs.umn.edu www.cauce.org