Hi everyone,

I have a Voodoo 3/2000, 2.6.8.1 under Debian and I don't get the framebuffer device to work.
I compiled my kernel with the new 3dfx drivers as follows:

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_3DFX=y
CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

and my computer freezes COMPLETELY (nothing but the reset button works anymore; feels like windows...) at startup. Aparently framebuffer_console is the problem; if I compile it into the kernel, it hangs directly at startup, if I compile it as module it hangs when I probe FBCON and if I don't compile it at all, everything's fine (only I cannot use the framebuffer device for mplayer -vo tdfxfb).

Does anyone know, what I'm doing wrong or has the same problem?

Thanks for any hint
Christian.

Do you need the 3Dfx-specific drivers? I have had a lot of problems using rivafb (for Nvidia graphics cards) and neomagic (for Neomagic chips) framebuffer. The solution that always works painlessly for me is VESA, so I never compile native chip support when it comes to the framebuffer. I suggest you try it as well - use VESA only.


Håkan

Vesafb doesn't work either; I have a

vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

in my dmesg. I don't know why. It was discussed in another thread without any solution. So if I disable my tdfxfb drivers, I have no framebuffer at all.

Thanks for the hint, perhaps it will work with later kernels.

Anyway the framebuffer with tdfxfb was meant to speed up movie playback with mplayer, so I'd like to use it, although I don't know yet if it is faster than xv at all...

Christian.

Check this -> CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL=y you should set =n because in kernel which you used is not working i have some problem how you and now i have kernel 2.6.9 and running it but older kernel's was problems
sorry for my english

Hey, thanks, it works now with 2.6.9, at least the framebuffer device...

The original problem however persists: mplayer -vo tdfxfb does not work: "cannot map memory areas: invalid argument". But at least fbdev is working, that's already nicer than xv.

Regards
Chris.