linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] uvesafb: a general description

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:05:26 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	spock@...too.org
CC:	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] uvesafb: a general description

Gabriel C wrote:
> Michal Januszewski wrote:
>   
>> uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced
>> version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1].
>>
>>   
>>     

[ .. ]
>> I've just tested uvesafb on my workstation ( which has a really old 
>> GeForce2 MX 400 Nvidia card ) and it didn't worked here.
>>
>> If I remember right vesafb-ntg worked here and vesafb works for sure :)
>>
>> Here the error from dmesg :
>>
>> ....
>>
>>
>> [   37.397298] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-3)
>> [   37.397358] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
>> [   37.397411] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22
>>
>>
>> ....
>>     


Got it to work today with an 2.6.22-rc6-git4 kernel build-in and as 
module and I like it really . good work.

For some reason 2.6.22-rc6 didn't worked here it may have some bug with 
my harware or something ( anyway 2.6.22-rc6-git4 is just fine )

Dmesg from working kernel attached.


Regards,

Gabriel C

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