On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:30:33PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> The reports I've seen have shown that i810fb outputs some warnings
> during startup about being unable to allocate using agpgart.
> As i810fb depends on agp, this would imply its functionality would break.
> Are you sure it's working, and not falling back to non-fb mode ?
> 

I'm not sure.. I'm not really a framebuffer user... but to me it looks
like a framebuffer.... and it works to play movies with mplayers -vo
fbdev and view images with fbi on the console... so I guess it works.
Can you tell from the dmesg output? 

I'll attach some I've captured.. one that I grabbed when the console 
got stuck.. 2.5.69-mm5 with hdb plugged in... a second one where I've 
unplugged hdb (both these with the "wrong fix")... verified that I can 
view images with fbi .. (all movies on hdb so I couldn't test mplayer)
and another one where I boot 2.5.67-bk6 ... verified that I can both
view images with fbi and watch movies with mplayer -vo fbdev ...

>  > And by the way.... the framebuffer flickers (is that the right word?)
>  > for me.... It looks like an old TV... (Has done with all the (2.5)
>  > kernels I've tried).. Is this a known problem and if so is there a
>  > solution?
>  > I'm using a TFT monitor and this is my append-line..
>  > append="video=i810fb:xres:1280,yres:1024,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:82, \
>  > 		vsync1:50,vsync2:75,accel"
>  > (... if it matters.)
> 
> That's probably one for Antonio to figure out, unfortunatly he's busy
> right now.
> 

Ok... I'll add some more info here just in case.... 
When it switches to framebuffer a white square appears in the upper left
corner.. (a 640x480 window?).... it dissapears when text (and the
penguin) is drawn over it... (same for all the 2.5:s I've tried) ... 
in 2.5.69-mm6 the penguin was missing... (maybee I did a mistake in the
config... all four CONFIG_LOGO_.. stuff enabled).

> 		Dave
>

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson