Hi,
i'm still using the K7SEM Motherboard with DiskOnChip Milleniuim an LinuxBIOS.
Linux 2.6 has some features i need and want, so i ported parts of the latest 2.4 sis-kernel_patch and the ide-spinup.patch to the 2.6 kernel some time ago. I combined both patches into one. I didn't port the SiSFB-Lite part of the SiS-Patch, because the SiS graphics driver in the kernel changed a lot.
The SiS framebuffer seems to work better with kernel 2.6 and linuxbios than it was with kernel 2.4 and linuxbios. But i have to call the fbset utility first after booting with linuxbios. I do not have the knowledge to fix that.
Greetings Thomas Wehrspann
Ollie Lo would be the person to ask about that. He's on leave at the moment, visiting with relatives. Please wait patiently for his respnose if nobody else can help.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
Hi,
i'm still using the K7SEM Motherboard with DiskOnChip Milleniuim an LinuxBIOS.
Linux 2.6 has some features i need and want, so i ported parts of the latest 2.4 sis-kernel_patch and the ide-spinup.patch to the 2.6 kernel some time ago. I combined both patches into one. I didn't port the SiSFB-Lite part of the SiS-Patch, because the SiS graphics driver in the kernel changed a lot.
The SiS framebuffer seems to work better with kernel 2.6 and linuxbios than it was with kernel 2.4 and linuxbios. But i have to call the fbset utility first after booting with linuxbios. I do not have the knowledge to fix that.
Greetings Thomas Wehrspann
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:33, Hendricks David W. wrote:
Ollie Lo would be the person to ask about that. He's on leave at the moment, visiting with relatives. Please wait patiently for his respnose if nobody else can help.
I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver is based on the "official" framebuffer driver released by SiS long time ago. It uses register table from vga bios image so there is a lot of code doing table parsing. It is totally beyond my knowledge.
Unfortunately, that driver is not maintained by SiS any more. You probably should ask the independent maintainer Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/
Ollie
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
Hi,
i'm still using the K7SEM Motherboard with DiskOnChip Milleniuim an LinuxBIOS.
Linux 2.6 has some features i need and want, so i ported parts of the latest 2.4 sis-kernel_patch and the ide-spinup.patch to the 2.6 kernel some time ago. I combined both patches into one. I didn't port the SiSFB-Lite part of the SiS-Patch, because the SiS graphics driver in the kernel changed a lot.
The SiS framebuffer seems to work better with kernel 2.6 and linuxbios than it was with kernel 2.4 and linuxbios. But i have to call the fbset utility first after booting with linuxbios. I do not have the knowledge to fix that.
Greetings Thomas Wehrspann
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On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:53, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver is based on the "official" framebuffer driver released by SiS long time ago. It uses register table from vga bios image so there is a lot of code doing table parsing. It is totally beyond my knowledge.
Unfortunately, that driver is not maintained by SiS any more. You probably should ask the independent maintainer Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/
Ollie
But after setting the videomode with fbset (the same mode that should be set after booting) framebuffer works. So i hoped it can't be that difficult.
Are you sure about the "official" SiS driver? For me the 2.6 SiS driver seem to be nearly the same Thomas Winischhofer released on his site. And he stated that he had no help from SiS.
Thomas
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:39, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:53, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver is based on the "official" framebuffer driver released by SiS long time ago. It uses register table from vga bios image so there is a lot of code doing table parsing. It is totally beyond my knowledge.
Unfortunately, that driver is not maintained by SiS any more. You probably should ask the independent maintainer Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/
Ollie
But after setting the videomode with fbset (the same mode that should be set after booting) framebuffer works. So i hoped it can't be that difficult.
I got that problem for my SiSFB Lite too. On some version of the VGA core, it take two set modes to actually set the hardware to the correct vide mode. Probably you can try the same trick.
Are you sure about the "official" SiS driver? For me the 2.6 SiS driver seem to be nearly the same Thomas Winischhofer released on his site. And he stated that he had no help from SiS.
He based his code on a very old "official" SiS release. SiS lost their interest in supporting that stuff after a few public releases and pretty much abandoned it. I am really amazed that he could figure out their code without any support from SiS (and persisted for such a long period).
Ollie
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