Messages in this thread | | | From | Giuseppe Bilotta <> | Subject | Re: Modular i810fb broken, partial fix | Date | Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:31:12 +0200 |
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:39:35 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >> Hi, >> i810fb as a module is broken (checked with 2.6.13-mm3 and 2.6.14-rc2-mm1). >> It compiles, but the module doesn't actually load because the kernel doesn't >> recognize the hardware (the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE statement is missing). > >> >> The attached patch fixes this. >> >> However, the resulting module still doesn't work. >> It loads, and then garbles the display (black screen with a couple of yellow >> lines, no matter what is written into the framebuffer device). > > Did you compile CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE statically, or did a modprobe fbcon? > Does i810fb work if compiled statically?
Since this is *really* coming out often: is there a specific reason why the fb modules do not depend on fbcon?
-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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