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I GOT FRAMEBUFFER MODE WORKING!!
Pain in the ass to set up, including manual xorg.conf edits, but I have fbdev loaded with framebuffer based display now.
I tried loading intel xorg driver, and it "almost works", but gives black screen of death for i915 driver. (what this tablet has baked in) That chipset breaks on linux all over, so not suprising it would load but not work correctly. (gives a cursor, but draws everything as black. The cursor is moveable, and does not smear, so the display is rendering-- just not correctly. This is a problem with the xorg driver. The window manager loads though, so go figure (just everything is flat black, so you cant see it). Maybe in time the xorg driver will improve and I can have accellerated xorg driver working. Just not today. fbdev it is.) quite the shame really. I tested wine with a copy of oldschool starcraft. Not quite playable speed on fbdev driver. Would likely be supremely playable on accellerated xorg driver. Having accellerated video with wine would open so many doors of opportunity for portable pc gaming.
I am using the florence software keyboard app. Touch input is working, but a little quirky on the double tap speed. 8in tablet is a little small for my fingers. Need to get a stylus.
I can now basically completely kill off Android in the background. The framebuffer and the touch input are done with kernel drivers that are builtins, so I can litterally axe all of android's processes once I have the linux userspace started. I am thinking I will make a service script to off all those services, and run it when starting the xserver. That should free up a shitload of memory.
I wonder if I do that, if alsa will work right afterwards.... (the processess clutching the sound device for dear life will be killed, so I wonder if I can better use it once it's free.....)
I am doing general experiments of that nature at the moment. screen writes are much faster. I can watch (silent) youtube videos in firefox now.
This is getting a little extreme, but yes-- with latest lnp for linux, I have graphics packs and dfhack working.
This thread seems to be more about getting linux working (well) and less about df working-- but one follows from the other.
Once I get this all configured the way I want, i am gonna be a happy little geek indeed.