UDL's fbdev doesn't work for user-space apps

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Tue Dec 12 21:12:14 UTC 2017


On Tue 2017-12-12 19:48:05, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 18:20 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2017-12-04 11:50:40, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Alexey,
> > > 
> > > On 04-12-2017 11:32, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > My first [probably incorrect] assumption is Xserver requires fbdev (/dev/fbX)
> > > > and it cannot use DRI video card natively. Is that correct?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Xserver can use DRI directly, you need to enable modesetting
> > > driver in Xorg config or use the designated driver for your card
> > > (if there is any).
> > 
> > Still, dev/fb1 should work.
> 
> Agree, but it doesn't :)
> Even on completely different architectures (ARC and ARM).

Yeah, would be nice to get it fixed :-). I remember it did not work
for me, either, and .. that's some time ago.

Architecture probably plays no role there.
									Pavel
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