From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:38:38 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Problems with ATI Mach64 Driver...

On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:

> Peter Hawkins writes:
> 
> >  Hi there...
> >  Andrew Apted wrote:
> >  
> >  > insmod fbcon-cfb8 ?
> >  
> >  Same error. I hadn't inserted it or compiled it before. Tried compiling
> >  cfb[2-8] and mfb into kernel. Same error. Tried compiling them all as
> >  modules and inserting them all. Same error. Any ideas?
> 
> OK I just realized the problem.  First you have to enable support in the
> kernel for the cfb* (etc) and probably have them compiled into the
> kernel (I hadn't tried them as modules myself).  Second, remake the
> kgicon.o module (`make clean ; make') which will add the necessary code.
> 
> This happens because we do "#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB8" in fbcon-kgi.c, which
> makes it _compile time_ dependent on those options being enabled.
> Whether this should be changed, I'm not sure yet (other fbcon low-level
> drivers do it this way too).

	IMHO it should be changed and all cfbx options should be required
to be compiled into the kernel.  I was thinking about this the last time I
looked at fbcon-kgi.c.  Since kgicon has to be able to handle a variety 
of driver types with a variety of capabilities, it needs to be able to 
handle all modes.

Jon

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