Re: Next round of console patches

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:39:41 +0200


In lists.linux.kernel you write:

>Martin,

>I've had a rather poor experience with this patch:

>1) If I build with CONFIG_MTRR=y, I get a solid lockup immediately after
>I select a graphics vesa mode during bootup (e.g, vga=0x0307). Nothing
>but a hard reset will get the system out of this lockup.

Whoops. Are the informations printed by vesafb correct (fb size, ...)?

>2) If I build with CONFIG_MTRR off and select a graphics vesa mode,
>scrolling looks horrible -- during bootup, the Penguin logos dance
>around like they are having an epileptic seizure.

That's becauce of the fact that ypan is used for scrolling. You can
boot with "video=vesa:redraw" to disable this, but it will show down
vesafb.

Gerd

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