Hi Alan,
> > > You are barking up the wrong tree with this. Read the tristate line.
> > >
> > > It doesn't mention 915 or 945 support. Intelfb only supports upto the
> > > 865G anyway.
> >
> > I read that line and enabling the compilation of the intelfb on x86_64
> > was only a simple try to see if it compiles. It doesn't and basically I
> > have no idea how to fix it.
> >
> > The 915G (8086:2582) is supported by the driver in the latest vanilla
> > kernel. Look at intelfb.h file and then you will see that the comment
> > line in Kconfig is outdated. I also found a patch to support the 915GM
> > (8086:2592) and maybe a similar patch will make the 945 work with the
> > intelfb driver.
>
> Doing a quick google shows that support is only partial for 915G. And
> the 915GM patch would be easily done for the 945G.
>
> But I'm not sure how partial that support is having not tried it, but I
> can see that there are definate problems here.
I can do the patch for the 945G by myself, but the current problem is
that the intelfb driver not even compiles on EM64T. Otherwise I would
give it a try and see if it helps me.
Regards
Marcel
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