SMI 501 local bus driver

Christian Pössinger poessinger at mixed-mode.de
Thu Oct 2 01:25:35 PDT 2008


On Wed, 1.10.2008, 20:53, Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>
>   Does the kernel framebuffer work? In that case, there is a fallback
> option "UseFBDev", that will not attempt to program the hardware, other
> then the accel registers.


I figured out the UseFBDev function yesterday. When enabling this specific
function my screen shows up with the mighty X cursor. I can move it with
my mouse perfectly, but the background is only black. I can't see the
normal b/w X background. When I start the xterm it's black, too.





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