From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:19:55 -0700 (PDT)

Re: kgicon, etc

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, 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.  

	Yes, I get oopsen with lynx as well.  Only lynx.

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

	Someone on linux-kernel was complaining about white-on-white with 
XF86_FBDev as well, so I don't think it is a kgicon problem.

Jon

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