Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:06:42 +0000 | From | David Taylor <> | Subject | Re: S3 Video Cards and VESAfb |
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On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > doubtful, it is a pretty big (though useful) hack > > A framebuffer driver for Trios exists at > http://www.hut.fi/~hmallat/linux/s3.html > > I hope to merge in PPC support and maybe Amiga support too from existing > S3triofb and cyberfb drivers, so there is finally one unified driver. >
Wow. Cool.
I had totally given up on getting a working framebuffer, what with my puny old VESA 1.3 BIOS.. Yet i managed to get the spiffy boot logo :)
The only annoying thing is it occasionally 'stalls' for a second or two (monitor drops into powersaving mode) when changing between VC's, before coming back, leaving the following message in the syslog:
Nov 2 21:05:57 xfiles kernel: TRIO driver: Unsupported clock freq -2147483648, using 25 Mhz
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