On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:46:05PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > > >>looking at DFB's supported-hardware page > >> > >>http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FSupport%2FGraphics > > > > > >Well, ... > > > >I did some try with my xgi card, and even though i disabled hardware > >acceleration, this is a nogo. I ended up in a messed up text terminal (with > >black blocks and รข chars for the box borders and shadow). > > > >So, it is clear that directfb needs not only the per-card drivers for > >acceleration, but also for normal usage. > > You're talking about per-card framebuffer devices, not per-card DFB > gfxdrivers, right? > On i386 the vesafb device can be used in place of card-specific fb > devices and DFB will run unaccelerated on top of it. > Does a device driver equivalent to vesafb exists for PPCs?
Forget it, there is something clearly wrong in my 2.6.18 based gtk-di build, even the radeon has problems, so i probably did some error in the build. Will investigate tomorrow. Friendly, Sven Luther
