OLPC progress report from Thailand

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Williams wrote:

> 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 know. I did use fedora in buid81 image.
I suspect I did not get the whole Xorg from git.
At this moment I pull the whole git again. It will be over night long and 
I will re-compile it tomorrow. I don't worry much about that.

Thank you for your advise.

supat