Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:33:17 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: S3trio framebuffer on Intel? |
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > I've been seeing messages about the trouble folks are > > having with vesafb and s3 chips; now I wonder if the > > S3trio fb driver is ready for x86 drivers or if it's > > PPC only and has some weird PPC assumptions built-in. > > S3triofb (and cyberfb) assume the video mode was already set up by Open > Firmware (or AmigaOS).
I guess this means someone with either in-depth knowledge about the video code or with lots of spare time will have to look into that some day :-(
In the mean time, I'll go on with my MM business... (as requested by Claus Fischer and several other folks)
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