Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:56:06 +0200 | From | Manuel Lauss <> | Subject | Re: Modular i810fb broken, partial fix |
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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?
I tried the module on my i815 laptop, after modprobe the module does nothing. The call to pci_register_driver() returns 0, and thats it; the probe function does not get called. Same thing with Bernhard's patch applied. No problems when compiled-in. Kernel 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, AGP compiled in, no DRM.
thx,
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