Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RadeonFB [Re: 2.4.23pre8 - ACPI Kernel Panic on boot] | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:55:05 +1100 |
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On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:16, Kristofer T. Karas wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >Ok, first thing: XFree "radeon" _is_ accelerated, though it doesn't > >do 3D on recent cards > > > Hi Ben - Right, sorry, I mean to apply "accelerated" to the 3D effects; > the private ATI driver is much faster on glxgears than the version that > bundles with XFree. > > >Then, the problem you are having is well known > > > I'm having two, actually. The first is that YPAN is getting quite > confused. If I switch VCs, then switch back, the text has been > re-arranged, the cursor is often invisible, and sometimes a page or two > of new text must be written before anything starts to show up on the > screen again. Experimenting shows that setting VYRES = YRES works > around this problem.
I'll have to look at this in more details. I don't see why ypan would cause such screen re-arrangement though...
> The second problem is of course the register contents issue when > returning from certain graphics programs (e.g. X+fglr) to text mode.. I > rather like your idea of doing a re-init when switching from KD_GRAPHICS > to KD_TEXT, as the monitor blank during resolution switch will likely > overshadow the re-init process. > > >Can you verify that running fbset -accel 0 then back 1 cures the > >problem for you ? > > > > > > At work now, will try when I return home later... > > Kris - 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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