Re: State of pm3fb driver
From: Romain Dolbeau <hidden>
Date: 2004-10-05 13:00:26
Thomas Jahns [off-list ref] wrote:
after I was quite unhappy with the support for my ATI Mach64 adapter in my Powermac 7500 I aquired a Formac Proformance III adapter that supposedly uses a Permedia 3 chip. Unfortunately it seems that the driver is broken in kernel 2.6.8 (at least to my incomplete understanding of the subject) for the following reasons:
Noone ever updated pm3fb to works with 2.6.x, so as you noticed, it doesn't work. There was a lot of changes for FB driver in 2.6.x, so the driver is in need of a complete rewrite. You can try using the likely working (but surely slow) offb, the generic OpenFirmware driver. Or (down|up)grade to 2.4.x. -- Romain Dolbeau ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl