On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:38:48PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:39:20PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
an EPIA/-M/-MII workshop on Saturday 2/6
Hrm, makes me wish i had already finished the direct unichrome support for it.
..instead of using the VGA BIOS, right?
Indeed. No more messing about with that.
Tell people it's in the works, that it runs np from userspace, but that it needs further work integrating in linuxbios. I'm pretty much stuck until halfway june, though.
Aye.
How does davem's viafb fit into the picture?
Is this the one that's based on the register document i wrote up in 2004? I don't know, never used it. It won't work properly without the VGA BIOS though.
I used the VGA BIOS and built a viafb kernel for my EPIA-MII last time I was using the board and got good graphics out of it. No X though.
Is viafb at all useful for running X.org? Which version of X.org is good for users? (Assuming LinuxBIOS+VGA BIOS)
I don't know if it is useful, last time i used X on fb, the MGA G450 was still recent.
You can use my xf86-video-unichrome directly, with no VGA BIOS, it'll run just like normal. Just make sure you get the git version. Any X will do too.
Luc Verhaegen.