Re: [FBDEV UPDATE] Newer patch.

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:38:46PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > I noticed one thing, and that is that the mach64 used to use software
> > cursor it seems (I remember wondering why atyfb_cursor was never used
> > anywhere). It's now using the hw cursor.
> 
> Yeap. I'm in the process of getting several driver to use there hardware 
> cursors.
>  
> > Also, I notice with this new code that the random vertical shifting of
> > the console doesn't occur anymore like it does with current 2.6.0-test8
> > code. For as long as I can remember 2.6.0-test, and way back into
> > 2.5.5x, this has been a problem with highly active console programs
> > (mutt, vim, etc...). Good to see it's going away :)
> 
> :-)
> 
> I have fixed the problems you have reported. I have a newer patch. Note 
> this is updated with the LCD support. I like to see if the patch works on 
> sparc. I has updates from the latest 2.4.X kernels. Please give it a try.
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
> 
> Let me know the results.

FYI, this new code is working for me on my Blade100. The cursor is much
better now.

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