[Linux-fbdev-users] Re: X over fb: "EGA/VGA planes are not yet supported by the fbdev

[William E. <mru...@po...>]

Guenndi,

  What Operating System are you using??  I have been trying to get FB 
working
on a Fedora Core 4 system with little luck.  I then installed Mandrake 10.1
and got the OS to see the four video cards I have but still no more than one
FB.  I can get four displays with X.  On both of my systems, 'X -configure'
does not work.  It does not assign any mode statements to xorg.conf.

  Good luck, let us know how you come out.  I'm interested in your progress.

>Hello everyone
>
>Trying to get the xserver (Knoppix 3.8 XFree86 4.3.0.1) over framebuffer. 
>The hw is the following:
>
>0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated 
>Graphics Device (rev 02)
>0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated 
>Graphics Device (rev 02)
>
>(btw, why do I get 2?) If I try he intelfb kernel driver, I get
>
>intelfb: intelfb_init
>intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G chipsets
>intelfb: Version 0.9.2
>intelfb: intelfb_setup
>intelfb: no options
>intelfb: intelfb_pci_register
>intelfb: fb aperture: 0xd8000000/0x8000000, MMIO region: 0xe8180000/0x80000
>intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 855GME, aperture size 128MB, stolen memory 32636kB
>intelfb: fb: 0xdb012000(+ 0x3012)/0x400000 (0xd1992000)
>intelfb: MMIO: 0xe8180000/0x80000 (0xd1e00000)
>intelfb: ring buffer: 0xdb001000/0x10000 (0xd1981000)
>intelfb: HW cursor: 0xdd24000/0x1000 (0xd1991000) (offset 0x3011) (phys 0xdd24000)
>intelfb: options: vram = 4, accel = 1, hwcursor = 1, fixed = 0, noinit = 0
>intelfb: options: mode = ""
>intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ).  Disabling mode switching.
>intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time.
>intelfb: cleanup
>
>I tried setting "vga=..." - no way. With vga16fb I can boot with the 
>framebuffer, i.e. it will be used by the console, but I cannot get X 
>running over it. I can run it over i810 X driver, but I need fb... 
>XF86Config-4 (BusID under "Card1" is just a test - tried without any too) 
>and XFree86.0.log attached.
>
>BTW, the reason why I want to run X over fb is, that I need to use 
>touchscreen, about which I read in a HowTo, that it only works if X runs 
>over fb, is it still true?
>

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