On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:24:04PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > > dear adaplas, > > > > could you please take a look at this matroxfb debian bug report: > > http://bugs.debian.org/347186 > > > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > <snipp> > >>>> Sigh, can't get a break with alpha kernel support around here. After > >>>> upgrading to 2.6.14 (from 2.4.27), the Matrox framebuffer no longer works > >>>> correctly on my alpha with a Matrox Millenium II. The matroxfb_base > >>>> module > >>>> loads without error, but gives me corrupt video output only. > >>> Try turning off acceleration. > >> Doesn't make a difference. > >> > >> What did make a difference was, after googling, loading fbcon manually > >> before loading matroxfb_base. Given that I'm loading matroxfb_base by hand > >> (/etc/modules), it's not getting loaded via udev or anything like that, it > >> seems to me that it's my responsibility to load fbcon by hand as well, but > >> it's still something of an unexpected change from 2.4. > > You can always compile fbcon statically and the fbdev as modules so you get > the same behavior as 2.4. (The separation of fbdev from fbcon is advantageous > in embedded systems where the console is not needed). > > (There's a new document Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt that explains some of the > changes. It's new in 2.6.15).
Also, note : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311815 [powerpc] screen garbage when using matroxfb acceleration this is on powerpc64 though, so it may be some 64-bitness issue. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
