Martynas> Richard A Nelson wrote:
>> I see that clgenfb.c isn't supported for i386 arch ;-{
Martynas> The same unfortunately holds true for many cards, S3 Virge
Martynas> in my case. There is virgefb.c, but not for i386 :(
Martynas> How much effort is required to "backport" the drivers? IIRC,
Martynas> most of the depend on the firmware to set the initial
Martynas> graphics mode, which is of no help on PC.
The current virgefb is just a hack to allow people to use the card as
a framebuffer after the video mode has been set by the boot `firmware'
if you like. The driver really needs someone who cares to sit down and
write the part of the code that initialised the gfx modes.
Jes
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