From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.be (spoolo2.tiscali.be [62.235.13.211]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA6D483E for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:34:42 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3FB01295.10005@tiscali.be> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:35:01 +0000 From: Joel Soete MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vapier@gentoo.org Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] framebuffer drawing incorrectly ? References: <200311101646.55611.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200311101646.55611.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: please send your xfonfig-4 and your dmesg file. Joel Mike Frysinger wrote: > i've been trying to get the framebuffer to work but so far havent had any > luck ... i was unable to locate anyone who had a similar problem ... > > Display controller: Hewlett-Packard Comp A4977A Visualize EG (rev 3). > machine is a C360 ... STI Console works great ... > tried 2.4.22-pa13 and 2.6.0-test9-pa5 with same exact results > > the frame buffer draws all messed up however ... it only draws on the right > quarter of the screen ... the rest of the screen still contains the buffered > video as found when the computer was booted (firmware output along with palo > stuff) ... the colors are all skewed, basically white is purple along with a > few other bit inversions of some sort ... > also, each line is drawn incorrectly ... it's like each has been split in half > horizontally and then swapped ... > i can get X to load, but again it draws it all messed up in the right quarter > on the screen > > i wish i could post a frame buffer grab, but fbgrab doesnt support 8bit and > fbscreenshot likes to segfault when writing the png to disk. > > any ideas what i'm missing ? > or is the fbdriver the only way i can get X and running ? > -mike