Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:07:32 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: S3 Trio FB |
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Avenger wrote: > Newcomer to the List. I have an S3-Trio 64V+ Card. In the configuration of the > kernel, the framebuffer thing for S3 trio is disabled.
There are two S3 Trio drivers in the kernel, neither of which you can use (probably). :( The first, S3triofb, is for Open Firmware (PPC) machines only. The second, cyberfb, is for Amigas only.
Attached is a patch against 2.3.15 which adds PCI support to cyberfb. It still needs some debugging, as I haven't had time to work on it for a few weeks now. But, you can see the penguin at least. Text on the screen readable but garbled, so there is probably something wrong with the fb_cmap color offsets or something like that.
When cyberfb is fixed, we can remove S3triofb from the kernel. Longer term, I am working to replace both cyberfb and S3triofb with 's3fb', to be based on s3lib[1], a generic library which support all S3 chips from Trio to the current Savage4.
Generic fbdev info: There is a mailing list for kernel fbdev: linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu Send to majordomo@vuser.vu.union.edu to subscribe. There is also a mailing list for Linux S3 users (not very active presently): linux-s3@gtf.org Send to majordomo@gtf.org to subscribe. Finally, a page full of fbdev info for both users and kernel developers exists at: http://gtf.org/garzik/video/
Regards,
Jeff
[1] http://gtf.org/garzik/video/files/s3lib-0.0.3.tar.gz
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