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Subject: Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel
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> > Is there another way to tell the fb driver what mode to use??
> > 
> Yep, in fbmem.c the name entry is "sisfb" as opposed to just "sis". 

Agh!!! That needs to be fixed. 

> Also, the
> driver requires that the mode is passed video a "mode:" argument as is
> outlined in the sisfb_setup(). Take a look at drivers/video/sis/sis_main.h,
> specifically sisbios_mode[] for a list of supported modes.

Broken. It should be using modedb. When I get the time I will send a fix.