Hello, I've been trying to get X4 going with fbdev and it's not working still. I thought someone may have had problems with this before.
The machine is a old Netwinder DM. I installed Debian unstable, upgraded Perl ot 5.6 and all packages along with that, and got xserver-xfree86 package. This is what's happening: FBdev driver loads fine. fbset displays a resolution fine. When I start X with startx it takes over the CPU and blocks all the tty's so I have to SSH in and shut it down. From the logs I can see that it gets stuck when fbdev tries to check modes: (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device... I read all the manual pages and found that I can turn off ShadowFB, when I do this the server goes past the previous line and halts on the next one, matching modes with monitor: (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against monitor... I've been hammering at this for a great while now and I simply can't find the reason this is happening. The only other progress I made is: I took out the "Modes" lines from the Screen section in XF86Config-4 and left ShadowFB on. In that case, I got whole whack of Undefined symbol errors in libfb.a and the server crashes. Can anyone tell me if there is a Netwinder fbdev X config file out there that works so I can try that? Or has anyone got fbdev and X4 working on a Netwinder? Thanks, Marko -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. --Rich Cook
