OLPC progress report from Thailand

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 07:01 +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 
> > On 13/09/06 19:44 +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> >>
> >> Today I test OLPC under slackware 10.2 several times and result are
> >> reproducible/repeatable with 100% correlation of working.
> >>
> >> Now, we can use OLPC to run .swf that eat 338 MB RAM by using
> >> decentralization techniques I used since 1995 at acceptible performance
> >> that students can use.
> >>
> >> The condition to make it to work are:
> >>
> >> 1. slackware 10.2 environment
> >> 2. amd VGA frame-buffer support under Xorg 7.1.99.2
> >
> > Please don't use the term VGA - if you are using LinuxBIOS it doesn't exist.
> > Period.  When you say "amd frame-buffer support" - does that mean you are
> > using the "fbdev" or "amd" driver?  Thats a very important distinction -
> > the former won't do 2D acceleration, the latter will.  Please be very careful
> > to use the correct terms when reporting your results.
> >
> >> Module                  Size  Used by
> >> gx1fb                  10240  0
> >
> > I'm not even sure how you managed to get this framebuffer driver to load.
> > It is the incorrect framebuffer driver.  You should be using gxfb.
> >
> > Jordan
> > -- 
> > Jordan Crouse
> > Senior Linux Engineer
> > Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> > <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>
> >
> 
> Thank you much on your sugession.
> 
> I used OLPC config given in OLPC build81 and recompile it under slackware 
> 10.2. For kernel 2.6 it become below .config
> 
> CONFIG_FB_GEODE=y
> CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX=y
> # CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX_SET_FBSIZE is not set
> CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX1=m
> # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
> 
> That means normal frame-buffer and normal AMD already exist in the kernel. 
> I don't know reason why I have to probe FB_GEODE_GX1 to make the movies to 
> work w/o problem. I think you should know it more than me.
> 
> At this moment, it still has missing minor features that annoy me, for 
> example press cntl_alt_f1 to f6 cannot bring back to console and I have to 
> kill X-window only by pressing cntl_alt_bs.

That certainly works under the Fedora-based builds, so it would again
appear to be something slackware-specific like the hotplug issues you
had with the Marvell driver.

Dan

> 
> I am also see that it did not have xterm and glx extension in Xorg so I 
> have to disable glx and copy xterm from slackware 10.2 to put in usb-OLPC 
> drive.
> 
> Regards,
> supat
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