Re: X server for x86 frame buffer

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:21:11 +0200


> I'd like to try out an X-server on top of vesafb. Has anybody been
> there and done that?

Yes, on my machine XF68_FBDev runs happily with vesafb on Neomagic.

> ObBugs:
> * using fbcon and vesafb, the last line of the screen is displayed
> on top of the second last.

[ignoring as you said it's already fixed in my l-con90 patch]

> * Cyan and Yellow are wrong in 8-bit mode.
> Try the following on a normal screen and using vesafb and you'll
> see the problem:

I'll look at it.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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