Re: S3trio framebuffer on Intel?

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been seeing messages about the trouble folks are
> having with vesafb and s3 chips; now I wonder if the
> S3trio fb driver is ready for x86 drivers or if it's
> PPC only and has some weird PPC assumptions built-in.
>
> It sure would be cool to have native S3trio support
> from the kernel :)

The kgicon Trio64V+ driver works pretty well on x86. When I was
doing the initial development of kgicon, that was the driver I used for
testing since I have one of them. It does not support Trio32 yet.

Jon

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