Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2007-03-09

Re: Gives Bus error in memcpy() in coping /dev/fb0 to a file.

From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-09 08:52:47

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 10:21 +0530, Vishal Soni wrote:
On Thursday 08 March 2007 18:35, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:20 +0530, Vishal Soni wrote:
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[root@tw pcapp]# ./pcapp
1024x768, 16bpp
framebuffer device mapped to memory @ 0xb7db3000.
FB_FRAME mapped to memory @ 0xb7c33000.
Bus error
I don't think vfb's framebuffer can be mmapped.  It's fixable, but
nobody seems to have a need for it,  yet.

Tony
fb is getting successfully mapped.. its just that memcpy gives bus error when 
i try to copy the mapped memory of framebuffer device to a "mapped file,"

Well, I am able to get the ball rolling by writing the mapped framebuffer onto 
the file by using write system call
Unless you modified vfb yourself, it's not possible because
fix->smem_start is not set all (it's pointing to NULL). What's actually
being mmapped is physical addres 0UL.

Tony



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