On Sam, 2003-03-01 at 22:20, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:30:02PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > Here's some OFfb output:
> >
> > 0 OFfb /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/AT
> >
> > And vesafb:
> >
> > 0 VESA VGA
> >
> > These look easy. :) I think these are the most common generic
> > framebuffer devices, then there's also vga{16,256}fb but I doubt they
> > are widely used.
>
> Okay, here's the new code based on this:
>
> # use fbcon kernel functions?
> USE_FBDEV=
> if [ -e /proc/fb ]; then
> FB_TYPE="$(awk '{print $2}' < /proc/fb)"
> # did we actually get back anything?
> if [ -n "$FB_TYPE" ]; then
> case "$FB_TYPE" in
> OFfb|VESA)
> # generic framebuffer that doesn't support UseFBDev
> ;;
> *)
> # other framebuffers do support UseFBDEV
> USE_FBDEV=yes
> ;;
> esac
> fi
> fi
>
> if [ -n "$USE_FBDEV" ]; then
> auto_answer db_input high xserver-xfree86/config/device/use_fbdev "true"
> else
> db_get xserver-xfree86/config/device/use_fbdev || debug_report_status "db_get
> xserver-xfree86/config/device/use_fbdev" "$?"
> if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then
> debug_echo "xserver-xfree86/config/device/use_fbdev is \"true\" but /proc/fb
> does not exist, is empty, or reports a framebuffer type with which UseFBDev cannot
> be used; setting template to \"false\""
> db_set xserver-xfree86/config/device/use_fbdev false
> fi
> fi
>
> Comments?
I think this doesn't handle multiple framebuffer devices, it would set
USE_FBDEV to yes no matter what they are. I'm not sure how to handle
that though, maybe
FB_TYPE="$(egrep '^0' /proc/fb | awk '{print $2}')"
?
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