From: Timothy MacDonald <tmacdonald@lgc.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:55:20 +0000

Re: nubee Q

I could be wrong here, but I have a millenium and I had to perform the extra step
of making the frame buffer device in /dev.

After recompiling the kernel with matroxfb support ( and of course booting with
this kernel ) issue the following command ( as root ):

mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0

This creates a framebuffer device for the kernel hook to matroxfb.

regards,

    Timothy MacDonald
    Unix System Administrator
    Landmark Graphics
    tmacdonald@lgc.com
    (281)560-1418

P.S. Ok let me add a question. The above only allows me to run fbdev targets as
root. What do I need to do to allow others to access the device? Do I need
KGIcon?



becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:

> Hi !
>
> > Hi.
> > I downloaded and installed these RPM-packages:
> > libggi-2.0beta2-1
> > libggi-demos-2.0beta2-1
> > libggi-devel-2.0beta2-1
> > libgii-0.5beta2-1
> > libgii-demos-0.5beta2-1
> > libgii-devel-0.5beta2-1
> > svgalib4ggi-0.6beta2-1
> > svgalib4ggi-devel-0.6beta2-1
> >
> > Now what?? :)
>
> O.K. - first do some tests. I haven't looked at the RPMs, but I assume the
> libggi-demos RPM contains a few things to toy around with.
>
> For a first try, start up X as usual and try some of the demos. They should
> run in a window within your X server. If that goes well, LibGGI seems
> to work properly.
>
> > How do I configure things to use my HW?
> > I have a Panasync SL90 screen and a Matrox Millenium.
>
> What type of Millenium ? I, II, G200, ... ?
>
> > I'm running RH 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 (which i plan to upgrade to 2.2.6 soon).
>
> First upgrade your kernel to 2.2.x. This should give you the option to
> enable matroxfb support in the kernel.
>
> If you boot up with this, LibGGI will automatically make use of it, so that
> you can start programs from the console.
>
> CU, Andy
>
> --
> = Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =