Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems

Hi all,

Thanks for the info Antonino. I see you spotted my typing error. Yes it is
the 2.6.10-rc1-bk6 kernel. The oter error is the 2.2.8.1. It should be
2.6.8.1.
 
The cgthree driver does not currently set up the all->info.var.red,
all->info.var.green or all->info.var.blue structures. Putting a value of 8
in the length field of these structures (correct for the cgthree) does get
me my logo back but I am still getting black on black text. It makes it
very difficult to read. It is begining to look like there is something
werid going on with the colour pallet stuf for PSEUDO_COLOUR.

Regards
	Mark Fortescue.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

On Saturday 30 October 2004 02:22, Mark Fortescue wrote:

quoted

Hi all,

I have been trying to get a CG3 sparc clone up and running with linux.
Under 2.2.26, the console is fine. During the development of the
2.5.x/2.6.x frame buffer system the CG3 support got broken. I have managed
to track done one of the problems (the blanking code had some typing
errors in it) and this gave me a logo + black screen and cursor using a
linux-2.2.8.1 kernel. Still no console text.

Given that 2.2.10-rc1-bk6 is available, I have downloaded and applied the
appropriate patches and made some additional mods to keep the
compiler/linker happy. Now I have a black console, no text, logo or cursor
and if I redirect the console output to a serial port I get the following:

I'm assuming 2.6.10-rc1-bk6...

Make sure you correctly fill up the red, green, blue, and transp fields
in all->info.var.  You can do it in sbufsfb_fill_var, or somewhere
within cg3.c before the register_framebuffer() part.

As a reminder, info->var and info->fix must be valid prior to framebuffer
registration.

Tony