On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:30:33PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:

The reports I've seen have shown that i810fb outputs some warnings
during startup about being unable to allocate using agpgart.
As i810fb depends on agp, this would imply its functionality would break.
Are you sure it's working, and not falling back to non-fb mode ?

I'm not sure.. I'm not really a framebuffer user... but to me it looks
like a framebuffer.... and it works to play movies with mplayers -vo
fbdev and view images with fbi on the console... so I guess it works.
Can you tell from the dmesg output? 

I'll attach some I've captured.. one that I grabbed when the console 
got stuck.. 2.5.69-mm5 with hdb plugged in... a second one where I've 
unplugged hdb (both these with the "wrong fix")... verified that I can 
view images with fbi .. (all movies on hdb so I couldn't test mplayer)
and another one where I boot 2.5.67-bk6 ... verified that I can both
view images with fbi and watch movies with mplayer -vo fbdev ...

 > And by the way.... the framebuffer flickers (is that the right word?)
 > for me.... It looks like an old TV... (Has done with all the (2.5)
 > kernels I've tried).. Is this a known problem and if so is there a
 > solution?
 > I'm using a TFT monitor and this is my append-line..
 > append="video=i810fb:xres:1280,yres:1024,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:82, \
 > 		vsync1:50,vsync2:75,accel"
 > (... if it matters.)

That's probably one for Antonio to figure out, unfortunatly he's busy
right now.

Ok... I'll add some more info here just in case.... 
When it switches to framebuffer a white square appears in the upper left
corner.. (a 640x480 window?).... it dissapears when text (and the
penguin) is drawn over it... (same for all the 2.5:s I've tried) ... 
in 2.5.69-mm6 the penguin was missing... (maybee I did a mistake in the
config... all four CONFIG_LOGO_.. stuff enabled).

		Dave

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson