From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jak Subject: Re: rivafb "Badness" using fbdev.diff.gz and 2.5.5[45] Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:09:10 +0000 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200301201909.10951.rfjak@eircom.net> References: <200301182028.33155.rfjak@eircom.net> <1042990390.1058.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.20]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18ahEs-0007c8-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:05:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1042990390.1058.4.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 Tony, =09thanks for your patches, they have fixed most of the problems I had. > > Try running stty to fix your display. > I can't convince stty to do anything useful for me : =09do I need a specific/patched version ? =09do I need to specify anything except rows cols values ? =09how would I change the colour depth ? =09I have 7 different lines in /etc/fb.modes related to 1024x768@8bpp, how can I tell stty that I want to use the equivalent of the timing value= s of any particular one of these 7 modes ( assuming timings are still relevant= ) ? =09what was wrong with fbset which I have to keep for the forseeable future anyway until 2.6 approaches 2.4 reliability ? > > So can you and Jak try the attached patch? It should prevent VGA > console corruption on insmod and it should eliminate the kobject trace > messages. > Using your 3 recent patches together clears up the green screen problem and text corruption as well as kobject "badness". > int __init rivafb_init(void) > { > -=09int err; > -=09err =3D pci_module_init(&rivafb_driver); > -=09if (err) > -=09=09return err; > -=09pci_register_driver(&rivafb_driver); > -=09return 0; > +=09return pci_module_init(&rivafb_driver); > } > This will normally return 1, not 0 as before. Is this intended ? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en