Please enter Exact Kernel version: 2.5.47 Distribution: Gentoo 1.4rc1 Hardware Environment: P4-M 1.6Ghz Software Environment: gcc 3.2 (compiled with pentium4 optimizations) Problem Description: framebuffer console drivers dont compile. Steps to reproduce: selecting any framebuffer driver in the kernel configuration and compilation fails.
*** Bug 44 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is anyone working on this or know why they don't compile? I'd like to try and make a patch, but I have no idea how the kernel works or what the actual problem is here.
Based on my list of maintainers, I see the maintainer for console framebuffer drivers is: Name: James Simmons Email: jsimmons@transvirtual.com I will try to contact James Simmons and see if he is willing to tackle this bug. In the mean time, if anyone would like to try for a patch, please go ahead and attach the patch to this bug report. Thanks.
I can't say I'm a coding expert, but why can't the fb code from 2.4.x be grafted onto the parts that 2.5 is missing as a temporary fix? I like my fb console...
The framebuffer code in 2.5 is an almost complete rewrite. Reintroducing 2.4 infrastructure would be reversing that work. What needs to be done is to port the drivers to the 2.5 API. For now, if you want a framebuffer console, compile with vesa framebuffer instead of your specific video driver.
seems to compile now for 2.5.51
The following config options are still broken as of 2.5.51 CONFIG_FB_CLGEN CONFIG_FB_PM2 CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 CONFIG_FB_IMSTT CONFIG_FB_MATROX CONFIG_FB_RADEON CONFIG_FB_SIS CONFIG_FB_3DFX CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT CONFIG_FB_PM3 Due to the vagueness of this bug report, this won't be able to be closed until all of these are fixed. This would better have been done with seperate bug entries. Because of this, I'm going to close this report. If your framebuffer of choice isn't covered by one of the other existing bugs, open a new one.
Changed category to Drivers.