[Savage40] Savage Frame Buffer

[John Connors]

A patch went into the kernel recently (2.6.11-rv3): I quote, verbatim 
from the changelog:

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	[PATCH] vesafb: Change return error id
	
	With <Stuart_Hayes at Dell.com>
	
	I'm getting a message in dmesg: "localhost kernel: vesafb: probe of 
vesafb0 failed with error -6"
	
	I searched the web, and found that a lot of people are getting this, 
but I couldn't find an answer, so I looked into it.
	
	This appears to be because "vesafb" returns -ENXIO ("No such device or 
address") when its probe function fails.  However, driverse/base/bus.c 
spews an error message during device_attach() if a matching driver's 
probe function returns anything but -ENODEV ("No such device").

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tony peach wrote:
>   John Connors posted:
> 
>  >> The 2.6.9 vesa framebuffer doesn't work for me on my mobile savage,
>  >> 2.4.28 did :(
>  >>
>  >> Must try 2.6.10 ;)
> 
> I am having the same problem.  The 2.4.24 vesafb worked fine but the 
> 2.6.10 just give  me the error "vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with 
> error -6".  I have googled in a vain attempt to figure out what has 
> changed between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but I haven't been able to find 
> anything useful.  Any one here know what's going on?
> 
> Ps. DRI seems to work though, since glxgears is giving about 350-400 fps. 
> 
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