[Intel-gfx] Console framebuffer support.

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 00:00 +0100, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> Hello:
> 
>   I'm interested in being able to use console in framebuffer mode as opposed 
> to regular text (80x25) mode. There are several reasons, maybe the most 
> important is that 25 text lines is far little to get enough hacking 
> information.
> 
>   AFAIK, and please correct me if I'm wrong, frame buffer in console is an 
> unsupported feature. This means than you may rise into problems if you try to 
> use vesafb or intelfb driver at the same time as intel xorg driver. This is 
> also true for latest Linux kernel or Xorg releases.
> 
>   I myself have run into trouble recently when upgrading to 2.5 xorg driver 
> branch, but as a exception I've used vesafb without trouble so far (2.3 and 
> 2.4 branches)
> 
>   My questions are:
>   · Is indeed any kind of console frame buffer driver is supported currently
>   · What are the possibilities if you want to run frame buffer on console
>   · Is/are any of them expected to be supported

Kernel modesetting has been merged to the DRM in linus master.  It is
currently rather unstable, and for X on top of it you require the latest
userland from git.  However, it is what will be supported now and in the
future.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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