From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:08:14 -0600

Re: Anyone managed to get XF68_DEV to work?

Andrew Apted wrote:

> Sengan writes:
>
> >  Replaced that by a "default" and now it complains that it does not know
> >  aboutthe VGA device I get returned to me by fbset -i:
> >
> >  mode "default"
> >      # H: 31.469 kHz, V: 69.930 Hz
> >      geometry 640 400 640 3264 4
> >      # RGB is 6:6:6 with offsets 0:0:0
> >      timings 39722 40 24 39 9 96 2
> >  endmode
> >
> >  Frame buffer device information:
> >      Name: `VGA+'
> >      Address : 0xb80000
> >      Size : 32768
> >      Type : CGA/EGA/VGA Color text
>
> You're in text mode ??  That shouldn't be when bpp == 4.
>
> Ah.. wrong framebuffer.  That is VGAFB.  Try doing :
>
>    export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1
>
> before running XF68_FBDev.
>
> >  Is the driver supposed to change these values, or am I supposed to do
> >  it with that fb.modes thing?
>
> Does fbset work ?  Something like :
>
>    fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -g 640 400 640 400 1
> or
>    fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -g 640 400 640 400 8
> or
>    fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -g 320 200 320 400 8

That helps a lot. XF68_DEV does not seem to like packed 16
pixels. Also I'm still getting a few hangs here and there for
no clear reason... anyone else experiencing that?

I've got 16 bpp to work in text mode, so I guess the problems
we are having with XF68_DEV are FB emulation things. Correct?

Sengan