Re: Tridentfb updates?

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Nov 25 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:49, Josh Myer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> > have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
> > less-than-enlightening (I'm not familiar with X internals).
> > 
> > I'm basically just interested in getting FB working for NTSC output.
> 
> The chipset docs are freely downloadable from VIA (including the 3d
> info). The TV on the epia is a seperate chip. I use the vesa mode switch
> to program that

For the record, a friend of mine pointed me to:

http://epiafb.sourceforge.net/

today. fb sort of works, the mode initialization doesn't get the mode
quite right it seems, but a manual fbset works for me afterwards.

-- 
Jens Axboe