From: Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net>
  To  : GGI mailing list <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:38:46 -0500 (CDT)

kgicon

Hello,

Trying to get kgicon up and running over here, and failing miserably. 
Kernel is 2.1.115, using vgafb exclusively (no vgacon or vesafb compiled
in). Video card is a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (S3 Vision 964).  My kgicon
configuration, as generated by "detectcard", is:

KERNEL_CLASS=linux
KERNEL_TYPE=i386
CHIP_CLASS=IBM
CHIP_TYPE=vga
ACCEL_CLASS=IBM
ACCEL_TYPE=vga
CLK_CLASS=fixed
CLK_TYPE=vga
DAC_CLASS=IBM
DAC_TYPE=vga
MON_CLASS=timelist
MON_TYPE=VGA

When insmod'ing the generated kgicon.o, I get:

IBM VGA chipset driver rev $Revision: 1.1 $
Detected 256KBytes of Video RAM
Timing list monitor driver rev $Revision: 1.1 $ for Timing list VGA
VGA DAC driver rev. $Revision: 1.1 $
VGA clock driver rev $Revision: 1.1 $,  common code:$Revision: 1.1 $
IBM VGA driver loaded.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
error: Initial kgifb_set_var() failed.
VGA clock driver unloaded
VGA DAC driver removed.
exit_kgi: Finished.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted. :-) Btw, is anyone actually working
on -real- support for the Vision 964 (it's commented out in 86c96x.c,
and uncommenting it and going from there results in much weirdness ;-)?

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