> I am a bit perplexed uvesafb and efifb (shipped with grub2 and
> activated quite simply) work well with nvidia, radeon and nouveaux (I
> don't know about all models or ATI propriety). So couldn't the fb from
> either of these be used or parts of the code to either patch or replace
> the vga16fb at least for magic mollusc.
>
That's our rough plan for 10.10, yes - now that we understand (mostly)
the quirks needed to do suspend/resume with a vesa or efi framebuffer
Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:40 +0000, mabawsa wrote:
> I am a bit perplexed uvesafb and efifb (shipped with grub2 and
> activated quite simply) work well with nvidia, radeon and nouveaux (I
> don't know about all models or ATI propriety). So couldn't the fb from
> either of these be used or parts of the code to either patch or replace
> the vga16fb at least for magic mollusc.
>
That's our rough plan for 10.10, yes - now that we understand (mostly)
the quirks needed to do suspend/resume with a vesa or efi framebuffer
Scott
--
Scott James Remnant
<email address hidden>