From: jonas_b@bitsmart.com
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:26:46 +0200

Re: kgicon, etc

On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:14:27AM +1000, Andrew Apted wrote:
> Jordan Mendelson writes:
> 
> >  Out of curiosity, development for GGI seems to be lagging compared to what
> >  it was before CVS was taken offline and I was curious if kgicon is something
> >  that is even being worked on anymore?
> 
> Kgicon (i.e. getting KGI drivers working in a stock 2.1.1xx development
> kernel via the /dev/fb* framebuffer interface) is being worked on, sure.
> 
> I have just committed the missing .configure files, and the ET6000
> driver is somewhat functional, although I did get an Oops when trying
> lynx -- very nasty since it seems memory and/or stack is being trashed
> somewhere.
What kernel version do you use? I had the same problem with the Millennium
driver with 2.1.107->2.1.110 or something. But I don't get the same error
with the 2.1.111 kernel.


> Also XF68_FBDev isn't setting the palette correctly, but the
> fbdev target *is* setting it correctly... weird.

Where did you find the XF68_FBDev binary for ix86, I've been searching for
that some days now, any url?

/ Jonas
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Jonas Borgström <jonas_b@bitsmart.com>