Bug 32 - framebuffer drivers dont compile
Summary: framebuffer drivers dont compile
Status: REJECTED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Console/Framebuffers (show other bugs)
Hardware: IA-32 Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Khoa Huynh
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Blocks: 19 35 44
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Reported: 2002-11-14 17:52 UTC by Hugo Santos
Modified: 2002-12-17 14:31 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Hugo Santos 2002-11-14 17:52:09 UTC
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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.
Comment 1 Khoa Huynh 2002-11-15 07:28:05 UTC
*** Bug 44 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2002-11-18 09:58:36 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Khoa Huynh 2002-11-19 09:34:55 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Joshua K. 2002-11-23 16:24:24 UTC
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...
Comment 5 Moses Lei 2002-11-23 22:42:16 UTC
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.
Comment 6 Christof Damian 2002-12-10 11:38:08 UTC
seems to compile now for 2.5.51
Comment 7 Dave Jones 2002-12-12 10:17:47 UTC
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.
Comment 8 Bug Me Administrator 2002-12-17 14:31:54 UTC
Changed category to Drivers.

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