FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Armin]

Hi list , 

im unble to get Framebuffer ( vesa fb ) working under 2.6 on 1024x768 ( 791 , 
790 , 731 and ... ) my card is ati mach64 , but frame buffer for this are not 
working too ...

can anyone give me some tips about it ? everything but framebuffer are working 
perfectly ! many thanks . 

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Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Andreas Unterkircher]

I had similar the same Problem... i fixed it when i also put the
compiled fonts in the kernel (vga fonts).

greetings, andi

Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Armin um 22:54:
> Hi list , 
> 
> im unble to get Framebuffer ( vesa fb ) working under 2.6 on 1024x768 ( 791 , 
> 790 , 731 and ... ) my card is ati mach64 , but frame buffer for this are not 
> working too ...
> 
> can anyone give me some tips about it ? everything but framebuffer are working 
> perfectly ! many thanks . 

Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Armin]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 00:35, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> I had similar the same Problem... i fixed it when i also put the
> compiled fonts in the kernel (vga fonts).
>
> greetings, andi
>

i have compile kernel with vga fonts , Still are not working ... 

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Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Davidlohr Bueso A.]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 05:29, Armin wrote:

> i have compile kernel with vga fonts , Still are not working ... 

I had the same problem, I compiled 2.6.0 with vga fonts and It worked
just fine. This is some of my .config that might intrest you

CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6=y

	dave

Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 18 Dec 03 at 23:29, Armin wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 00:35, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > I had similar the same Problem... i fixed it when i also put the
> 
> i have compile kernel with vga fonts , Still are not working ... 

And did you enable framebuffer console support in Device Drivers ->
Graphics Support -> Console display driver support -> Framebuffer Console
Support ? It looks to me like that you did not enabled this, and so you
get hardware in graphics mode (when fbdev loads), but no text there (as
there is no fbcon in your kernel). 2.6.x kernel has strange idea
that non-embedded users need fbdev without fbcon by default...

I'm not aware about any problems with matroxfb driver in Linus kernel
except that you should use 'video=matroxfb:nopan' to avoid problems
with default resolution XXXx65536 (or clip vyres yourself to reasonable
value). Of course all 2.6.x fbdev limits apply also to matroxfb driver.
If you want interface compatible with 2.4.x, you'll have to get patch
from ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.6.0.gz
(only vgacon, matroxfb and vesafb are tested).

                                                    Best regards,
                                                        Petr Vandrovec
                                                        vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                        

Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On 18 Dec 03 at 23:29, Armin wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2003 00:35, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > > I had similar the same Problem... i fixed it when i also put the
> >
> > i have compile kernel with vga fonts , Still are not working ...
>
> And did you enable framebuffer console support in Device Drivers ->
> Graphics Support -> Console display driver support -> Framebuffer Console
> Support ? It looks to me like that you did not enabled this, and so you
> get hardware in graphics mode (when fbdev loads), but no text there (as
> there is no fbcon in your kernel). 2.6.x kernel has strange idea
> that non-embedded users need fbdev without fbcon by default...
>
> I'm not aware about any problems with matroxfb driver in Linus kernel
> except that you should use 'video=matroxfb:nopan' to avoid problems
> with default resolution XXXx65536 (or clip vyres yourself to reasonable
> value). Of course all 2.6.x fbdev limits apply also to matroxfb driver.
> If you want interface compatible with 2.4.x, you'll have to get patch
> from ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.6.0.gz
> (only vgacon, matroxfb and vesafb are tested).

I'm fielding a bug report from someone which is related to the EDID
changes here;

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458

Do you think they may be related?

Re: FrameBuffer Problem With 2.6.0

[Armin]

On Friday 19 December 2003 03:29, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> I'm not aware about any problems with matroxfb driver in Linus kernel
> except that you should use 'video=matroxfb:nopan' to avoid problems
> with default resolution XXXx65536 (or clip vyres yourself to reasonable
> value). Of course all 2.6.x fbdev limits apply also to matroxfb driver.
> If you want interface compatible with 2.4.x, you'll have to get patch
> from ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.6.0.gz
> (only vgacon, matroxfb and vesafb are tested).
>


Just enable VesaFB and set vga to 791 , without compiling anything else , now 
frame buffer are working perfectly :)

thanks everyone who helped ;) 

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