Re: Re: New FBDev patch (a little report)

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

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 04:15, Javier Villavicencio wrote:
> Hi, I've tested this patch (after the radeon patch update), and it's working
> almost perfect with just one problem: going back from X the framebuffer
> screen is completely distorted, but it can be corrected changing the depth
> with fbset (-depth 8/16/32 and back to the working depth).

We need to add a callback to the fbdev when restoring the console
from KD_GRAPHICS to KD_TEXT, maybe a special case of "switch".

James, I suggest turning that into a set_par call with a flag for
'forcing' the mode to be re-applied fully even if it already matches
the HW. (Currently, set_par in some drivers like my new radeonfb,
for obvious perfs reasons, will not touch the HW if the var and the
par are matching already).

Ben.
 



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