Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:21:02 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [fb] scrolling? |
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Hello,
> How do I enable scrolling when I'm running vesafb?
Scrolling == scrollback?
> I've read the linux/Documentation/fb.txt and vesafb.txt as well as the > source for vesafb and tried both vesa:ywrap and vesa:ypan but nothing > seems to work. I get no errors or otherwise in the logs or on the > screen during boot. > > Does panning only work when I'm running an 80x25 screen? I've got a > Compaq Armada 1592DMT notebook here and told vesafb to do 800x600x16 > which gives me a BEAUTIFUL 100x30 or so text mode, but no way to > scroll it apparently.
To use panning or wrapping, your VESA BIOS must support setting of screen origin and the protected mode interface which only some BIOSes do.
> Oh yes -- about 2 out of 3 boots, my golden Tux never appears... Is > this a configuration error?
With or without additional vesafb options?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))" -- Shakespeare
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