Re: [PATCH][RIVAFB]: Updates to rivafb driver

[David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:29:09AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Thursday 17 June 2004 01:34, David Eger wrote:
> > And yes, the capabilities patch makes your driver slow.
> > But setting the proper flags makes it fast again ;-)
> 
> Do you mind submitting a patch yourself?  It's probably a 1 liner patch, 
> unless we also modify rivafb to use cfb_* drawing functions depending on
> the setting of var->accel_flags.

I'd be happy to.  I'll forward it to Andrew+James tomorrow.
( I'm currently at the GNU/yak café night in Atlanta, away 
  from my TNT2 testing box )

> > The driver still doesn't play nice with the evil binary nvidia drivers,
> > but then, that's expected.  (It'd be nice if changing from X to aa
> > console didn't *crash my machine* though.)
> 
> Yeah, even with XOrg/Free86 nv driver, it hangs.  Don't really know the
> exact solution, probably a complete re-initialization of the hardware
> when switching from X.  But this will require that fbcon recognizes
> a switch from X itself which it currently doesn't (unless I'm mistaken).

Back in February, BenH said he was going to work on a patch for this:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.2/0247.html

Hey Ben, what ever became of this?  Are there now hooks for this or 
something?

-dte


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