From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Subject: Re: 2.5.51 -- rivafb is whacky (characters flipped on vertical axis, 640x480 usable area shown inside a higher-res area, etc). Date: 11 Dec 2002 08:05:41 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1039622741.1111.21.camel@bellybutton.attbi.com> References: <3DF6894E.3090802@attbi.com> <1039610250.1147.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com ([204.127.202.61]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18M9Mr-0000vc-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:05:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1039610250.1147.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Antonino Daplas Cc: James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 04:49, Antonino Daplas wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 05:39, Miles Lane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried getting rivafb to work in 2.5.51. It is much better > > than before (thanks!). It compiles and sorta works. > > > > Here are the problems: > > > > When I run "fbset -a 640x480", I get display that fills > > the screen and looks okay, but most of the characters are > > flipped along the vertical axis, so they are backwards, so that: > > > > +---- ----+ > > | | > > +--- becomes ---+ > > | | > > | | > > > What's the hardware, is it on a big endian machine? I think there's a > typo there (__BIG_ENDIAN__ instead of __BIG_ENDIAN). This should > produce the "mirroring" effect. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 25) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10 [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 000b Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- > Secondly, a lot of the changes there are for riva128, which may not > apply for all cards. Try doing fbset -accel false/true and see if > there's any effect. Or open linux/video/drivers/riva/fbdev.c, line 277 > and comment out the line with the FB_ACCELF_TEXT. This should force the > hardware to do everything in software. Thanks, I'll check this today. Miles ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/