From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263861AbTDVUmV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:42:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263862AbTDVUmV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:42:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.89]:39925 "EHLO mx1.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263861AbTDVUk6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:40:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA5ABAE.1020009@wmich.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:53:02 -0400 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030318 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.5.68 state of matroxfb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm just wondering what the state of the matroxfb driver is and why it's an option in the kernel when it's completely uncompilable and has been for many months. I know it requires patches to work and i was under the assumption that these patches were at linux-fbdev.org but that site has been down for the past few days i've tried to access it and with no documentation updates about the new matroxfb driver since 2.4, I've been unable to verify if this is the only place to find the matroxfb patches. So what i'm getting at is why is there a matroxfb option in the current kernel when the driver isn't there and what the future/current situation is with the framebuffer driver. I'd like to get the most hardware support for video output as possible and it seems like the mga (mplayer) driver built on top of the fb driver is the way to do that and since my Nvidia card is twice as fast at X operations as my G450, I was assuming that the 2.5 fb code was just much better than the 2.4 fb code since I use the nvidia fb driver in 2.5 with X using the nvidia driver (Xfree's ). I've never been able to test that theory though because i've never been able to build 2.5's matroxfb.