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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:33:48PM +0000, Mark Zealey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:00:57PM -0000, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > Do you have a graphical console or text? I believe there are fixes in > > 2.4.18-preX to decrease the 3dfx banshee/v3 pixel clock or something to > > alleviate this issue. That'll be in the 3dfx framebuffer driver. > > That fix only becomes active when the pixelclock is over half the maximum value for the DAC on your card. > > Or, of course, it could be something entirely different.... > > Text at something like 32x80 and graphics in X at 640x480. This seems to be a > character map corruption problem, like an > will only have the / bit showing on > it, or an ! will be half-sized etc. Also happens with other chars, but a flip > back into X and then console again usially fixes it > > -- That means it would be difficult to hit with the console at 80x32 and X at 640x480, unless you run at a ridiculous vertical frequency. Anyway, it's simple to test if this fix caused it by replacing txfxfb.c with a version from before 2.4.18-pre6. Since I proposed this fix, I'd be intertested to know if this fix caused it. Let me know, Jurriaan > > Mark Zealey > mark@zealos.org > mark@itsolve.co.uk > > UL++++>$ G!>(GCM/GCS/GS/GM) dpu? s:-@ a16! C++++>$ P++++>+++++$ L+++>+++++$ > !E---? W+++>$ N- !o? !w--- O? !M? !V? !PS !PE--@ PGP+? r++ !t---?@ !X---? > !R- b+ !tv b+ DI+ D+? G+++ e>+++++ !h++* r!-- y-- > > (www.geekcode.com) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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