Hi I'm having problems with directfb on Lenovo T440s with Intel HD graphics. Framebuffer seems to be OK, /dev/fb0 is present and dmesg says [ 0.572959] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 58 for MSI/MSI-X [ 0.572967] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 0.572971] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. [ 0.572989] [drm] DMAR active, disabling use of stolen memory [ 0.573025] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem [ 0.679991] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpb] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 5 [ 0.693128] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device I tried DirectFB versions 1.4.9, 1.6.3 and 1.7.1 with different results. running "dfbg -c FFFF" on 1.4.9 blinks the screen with white then prints this: ------------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.4.9 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) 2001-2010 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2014-05-24 07:51) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy() (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'VT Switcher' (-1) [CRITICAL OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'VT Flusher' (-1) [DEFAULT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/FBDev: Found 'inteldrmfb' (ID 0) with frame buffer at 0xe00c0000, 5628k (MMIO 0x00000000, 0k) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Sleep Button (1) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Power Button (2) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Video Bus (3) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons (4) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (5) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (6) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Integrated Camera (7) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint (8) 0.1 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Hotplug with Linux Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Hot-plug detection enabled with Linux Input Driver (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'PS/2 Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse 1.0 (directfb.org) (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'Keyboard Input' (-1) [INPUT OTHER/OTHER 0/0] <8388608>... (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (directfb.org) (*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled (*) DirectFB/Graphics: MMX Software Rasterizer 0.6 (directfb.org) (*) DirectFB/Core/WM: Default 0.3 (directfb.org) (*) FBDev/Mode: Setting 1600x900 RGB32 (*) FBDev/Mode: Switched to 1600x900 (virtual 1600x900) at 32 bit (RGB32), pitch 6400 (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Could not set gamma ramp --> Invalid argument ------------------------------------------ doing the same on 1.6.3 or 1.7.1 doesn't blink the screen and prints this: (*) Direct/Thread: Started 'SigHandler' (25655) [CRITICAL - OTHER/0] <8392704>... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.7.1 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) 2012-2013 DirectFB integrated media GmbH (c) 2001-2013 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2014-05-25 02:04) (!) DirectFB/core/system: No system found! (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: No implementation for this interface or content type has been found I also tried this app to check if fbdev works at all: http://git.ideasonboard.org/fbdev-test.git Output of fbdev-test /dev/fb0: Device /dev/fb0 opened: inteldrmfb --- Fixed screen info --- Type: Packed Pixels Visual: True Color Chip/card: no hardware accelerator Memory: 5763072 bytes @0xe00c0000 X Pan Step: 1 Y Pan Step: 1 Line Length: 6400 bytes --- Variable screen info --- Resolution: 1600x900 Virtual Resolution: 1600x900 X/Y Offset: (0,0) Size: 4294967295mm x 4294967295mm Pixel organization: RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBB (32 bits per pixel) 765432107654321076543210 FB memory mapped at 0x7f71906f1000 other commands like filling screen with a pattern also work fine. # emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.14.4-ck x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 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your best bet for this sort of thing is the dfb mailing lists: http://directfb.org/index.php?path=Development%2FMailing+Lists we don't really develop dfb itself
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