[parisc-linux] framebuffer drivers, sound

[Andi]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:53:31AM +0200, Andi wrote:
> > The stifb driver is working for me, but the colors are completely wrong
> > and the
> > system crashes if i try to cat /dev/fb0.
>
> Yup, the stifb is buggy.  Please, if you have time, it would be great
> if you could help clean it up and get it working.

I hope that I will find the time, but I cant promise anything.

> sticon works rather
> better but it is still not great.

well, sticon has correct colors, but works worse than stifb
(swiching a vt does not redraw the whole screen,
dselect is not usable ...)

> The STI docs are publically available
> from the documentation page.

Yeah, the STI docs.... HP should release the hardware level
docs, this is the only way to implement a full featured fbdev
driver. A stifb would still be usefull since it is works for
every HP gfxcard with STI BIOS, but a special driver for each
gfxcard would be nice to have things like mode switching.

Andreas - "I want color recovery!!!" ;-)