can't start with xorg-video-fbdev/vt8623fb

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:38 -0400, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> 
> On 06/08/09 03:58, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mit, 2009-08-05 at 20:16 -0400, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I need to run an X server in a tiny x86 machine. I wanted to do so
> >> using fb but whatever I do ends up with:
> >>
> >> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO succeeded but modified mode
> >>
> >> linux26 2.6.27.29 (vt8623fb)
> >> xorg-server 1.5.3
> >> xf86-video-fbdev 0.4.0 (and later 0.4.1)
> >
> > There's a fix in xserver 1.6.x to avoid a false positive of the check
> > above due to pixel clock rounding errors. If that doesn't help, there
> > may be a bug in vt8623fb.
> >
> 
> is that fix the one from 
> <https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=161573> or there 
> is more?

I mean

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=bf333c2f9833a178887e7bdd7fc338f1e09c387f

> I'm about to try kdrive and xorg-video-openchrome as alternatives

A specific driver for your hardware should be better than a generic
driver like fbdev anyway.


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