From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg Brigley <gbrigley@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use gma500 framebuffer driver?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:54:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110312205459.333e6c33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mvLWd2eOgNc3L9swduoxJMhPO4_5C3Sfu5EwC@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:01:17 -0500
Greg Brigley <gbrigley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys. I went to retrieve a dmesg dump for Alan, and thought I
> should really do it without some other modules I had loaded, so the
> output would be less cluttered. When I did that, the framebuffer
> worked!
It will probably fail if you have the vesa framebuffer driver enabled or
vga16fb.
> I'll figure out which other module was causing the trouble and report back.
That would be useful info.
> As for the mirrored display, is this something I might reasonably take
> on myself, having no experience with video drivers? If so, pointers
> for where to start looking would be great.
There are three things we need to do before we can do multi display
properly
- debug non panel outputs so the HDMI and other ports work on all systems
- an actual KMS X server
- a memory allocator (although in theory we don't need that if we stick
to mirrored)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-12 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 18:55 Greg Brigley
2011-03-11 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-12 17:01 ` Greg Brigley
2011-03-12 20:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-03-11 21:12 ` Kristoffer Ericson
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