Re: Which FB to use instead of vesafb?

From: Ducrot Bruno (poup@poupinou.org)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 15:13:28 EST

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:25:56AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Try rivafb, but I hear it is broken in 2.5 :)

Sound like to be broken..

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Which framebuffer works with a:
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
> > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
> > Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> > Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > Memory at ebf80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
> > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> > Capabilities: <available only to root>
> >

There were patch around for 2.4. Search for Paul Richards on lkml, or
apply this one (Richards version diffed against 2.4.21-pre3). 

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