Re: Re: [PATCH] New radeonfb fork

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 14:47, paride wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Looks like the PLL isn't locking properly. The latest driver I'll
> > release (today hopefully) includes a workaround that _might_ help
> 
> I hope so, fixing this issue will make many toshiba and hp users very 
> happy. There are two more thing I think it's better to tell you:
> 
> 1) This happened also with the standard radeonfb. When the driver is 
> loaded, the whole screen image is moded up of about 3 or 4 mm. So the 
> upper part of the screen is cut, and at the bottom there is a black 
> strip. "fbset -vsync high" fixes this perfectly, so this isn't a real 
> problem, maybe is just a characteristic of my hardware, telling you 
> shouldn't hurt.

Just to make sure I understood you, this also happens with my
driver or not ? It's possible that your monitor EDID information
as provided by the BIOS is slightly incorrect, I'll look if there
is no parsing error on my side. Can you send me a dmesg output ?

> 2) when switching from x to console, happens that when the text scrolls 
> outside the screen, it reappears in the bottom part of the screen, very 
> bigger, and everything gets messed up. I don't know if this could be 
> related to the flicker problem, but it never happened with the old 
> radeonfb. Playing a bit with fbset solves the problem. I didn't 
> understand exactly what causes this, I'm investigating.

Isn't fixed by my latest version (URL below) ? 
http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/radeonfb-041103-2.4.20.diff
http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/radeonfb-041103-2.4.21-pre7.diff


Ben.



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