Summary: | [xorg] r128 driver can't run on vesa framebuffer : unresolved symbols | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Hubert Mercier (RETIRED) <anigel> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Hubert Mercier (RETIRED)
2005-01-31 11:04:40 UTC
Anyone got a good idea? i strongly suspect that you can't run _any_ driver on vesafb besides vesa(4). there should be a kernel framebuffer driver explicitly for the rage128. So, I think we've got Alex's patch in 6.8.1.902 to use r128 without fbdev. Try changing UseFBDev to false. nevermind that's a ppc thing and you're on x86 .. try it anyhow, shouldn't need patch. In fact, the only way to activate TV-out on this card is to boot on a vesa framebuffer (it works very well). But, the only way to get a decent CPU usage while reading videos on it is to have XV extension in X. So, I have tu use r128 driver or ati driver. But, both refuse to activate TV output. After reading doc (example here for the r128 driver : http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?r128+4), I found that using the specific driver on top of the vesa framebuffer could solve my problem (it has been done successfully with other drivers, I found a few pages about this way to deal the problem). This way, the xfree driver would be able to deal with hardware functions of the card, while using framebuffer interface. But these unresolved symbols prenvent me to confirm this. Another way to deal with could be to use another framebuffer driver (aty128). I tried this solution, but it doesn't activate TV-out at boot, and the only tool I know to do this (atitvout) is deprecated and doesn't work on my machine. So... I don't see any other solution. Any suggestions welcome, of course, and thanks for these. This is an upstream bug. Please file it at bugs.freedesktop.org, xorg product, and post the URL here. |