Re: intelfb not working on a 945GM

Jesse Barnes wrote:

On Friday, October 19, 2007 4:20 am Paride Legovini wrote:

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Jesse Barnes wrote:

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The intelfb driver doesn't support much in the way of modesetting,
and in fact it can be problematic if you try to use it, X and the
DRM at the same time, so I'd recommend avoiding it unless you have
specific embedded requirements or something...

But the problem I described come out during the very first stages of
the boot, before drm or the X driver are loaded (and, moreover, I
don't start X at boot, I use startx, and then X loads the modules it
needs). So this doesn't seem to be the answer...

intelfb doesn't support LVDS afaik, so unless you specifically pass it a 
mode to set your display won't work at all with it.

[...]

Though again, if you have specific embedded requirements (e.g. using fb 
applications directly in some specific environment) it might be fine 
for you.  But even then, you may prefer something like what we have in 
the DRM modesetting-101 tree, since it can also give you 3D 
acceleration.

I have no embedded requirements, I just don't always need X, and I like
the framebuffer console in general. Thank you for the modesetting-101
hint, maybe I'll give it a try (I didn't ever know of its existence).

Oh, sorry for writing to you directly and not to the list, I'm too used
to lists where the Reply-To: header is set to the list's address.

p.

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