Re: 2.1.109p2 on UDB

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:41:03 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > > So now the TGA FB is working, but you can brew yourself a cup of coffee
> > > while the screen scrolls. And you can't even switch VC while it is
> > > scrolling. Wasnt there something mentioned about changing the
> > > scrolling method by defining a different SCROLL_* flag?
> >
> > Add
> >
> > disp.scrollmode = SCROLL_YREDRAW;
> >
> > after the assignment to disp.dispsw in drivers/video/tgafb.c This will enable
> > Jakub Jelinek's smart scrolling. Even beats bitblit on my PCI ATI.
> >
> > Please let me know if it works, so I can check in the patches at vger.
>
> Works like a charm. So only thing to work out is where the PCI code

Checked in at vger.

> screwup occured. Could it be that there is a difference between the VGER
> tree and Linus' tree? That would explain why the CPP constants *_DENSE_MEM
> have been replaced by a CPP macro DENSE_MEM(x)...

That's perfectly possible. There have been other slight incompatibilities
lately.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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