[I810fb-announce] i810fb drivers for linux-2.4.18-14 kernel

[Monisha B. <mon...@ya...>]

Hi All,

 We have been trying to get framebuffer support in the
kernel version 2.4.18-14 for the Intel 82815 Graphics
Controller Chipset.
 
 As specified in the link
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/30483.htm#POS1,the
82815 GCC card does not support the  vesafb module but
does require a native driver.

 We downloaded the file
linux-i810fb-mod-0.0.23.tar.bz2 from the sourceforge
site and tried inserting the module corresponding to
the 2.4.18 kernel by using "insmod". When doing so we
received the following error:

"i810fb-2.4.18.o: The module you are trying to load
(i810fb-2.4.18.o) is compiled with a gcc
version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running
is compiled with
a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work."

Can anyone suggest how to overcome this problem? Or
specify if there are i810fb drivers corresponding to
the linux version 2.4.18 which are compiled by gcc
version 3 compiler and can be inserted in the 2.4.18
kernel?

Note that: We also tried downloading and compiling the
linux-2.6.0-test1(considering the fact that the i810
driver comes built in within it). Here also we faced
an issue in that the compiled image corresponding to
this kernel does not display anything in the console
though it seemed that the booting process was
proceeding with some hard disk activity going on.

Can anyone give some pointers and help regarding it.

Thanks,
Monisha.



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