sunffb wont load

Michael Lorenz macallan at netbsd.org
Fri Jun 9 12:13:11 PDT 2006


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Hello,

>> This is the problem. sunffb depends on the cfb module to be loaded,
>> XFree86 used to load it unconditionally on startup, xorg no longer 
>> does
>> that.
>
> This is slightly incorrect; the driver is the piece that loads cfb, 
> not the
> core.

Oops, i could have sworn it was in the list of unconditionally loaded 
modules. Sorry, my bad.

>> I fixed this ( and a few other things ) for NetBSD/sparc64, if 
>> anyone's
>> interested I'll post a patch.
>
> I fixed it for real in the sunffb driver in CVS, where there is no 
> longer any
> mention of cfb.  Just use that and be done with it.

Ok, I'll update out driver.
Did you also fix the ffb1 screen blanking problems?
It turned out that blanking on a Pacifica 1 DAC will result in 
corrupted video memory on unblank - our workaround was simply to redraw 
everything on unblank when the driver identified a Pac1. Any ffb2 or 
newer is unaffected by this.

have fun
Michael
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