[Intel-gfx] Console framebuffer support.

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

El Jueves 08 Enero 2009, Tino Keitel escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 00:00:12 +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.
>
> [...]
>
> >   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
>
> There is a framebuffer driver called intelfb. It supports chipsets up
> to i965 AFAIK.

  Indeed intelfb supports such chips, problem is that mix of kernel 
framebuffer video drivers and Xorg intel video is unsopported. It actually 
could fail firing up xserver. With vesafb things were a little better, till 
2.5 (in my case).

  Thanks for the answer, regards,
>
> Regards,
> Tino

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     Raúl Sánchez Siles
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