Re: framebuffer oddities, cont'd...

[Helge H. <hel...@hi...>]

Aivils wrote:

>On Friday 17 September 2004 23:04, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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>>--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw...@ya...> wrote:
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>>>I now see that I ought to try nVidia riva in the
>>>kernel without the sun font or vesafb driver and see
>>>if he changes the number of framebuffers.
>>>
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>>>
>>Result:
>>Only catting to /dev/fb0 produces green speckles on
>>the screen. Anything else gets "no such device".
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> IMHO rivafb does not work for me.
>vesafb-tng at least have stable maintainer, i choose it.
>Lone fb driver take over VGA console and so use
>same vc:1-16. For second X  please use same vc:17
>That mean - no changes, just compile fbcon into
>kernel.
>I am not sure about fbcon and _second_ X server
>compatibility, because each X try to block video
>output.
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2.6.7 fbcon seems to work fine with dual X servers,
at least on the matrox G550.

Helge Hafting