From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Eger Subject: Re: [PATCH][RIVAFB]: Updates to rivafb driver Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:16:34 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040617001634.GA6013@havoc.gtf.org> References: <200406160406.07060.adaplas@hotpop.com> <200406161353.51195.adaplas@hotpop.com> <20040616173429.GA8601@havoc.gtf.org> <200406170629.09691.adaplas@hotpop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BakaA-0002iZ-SR for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:16:42 -0700 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([216.162.42.101]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BakaA-0005dj-IT for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:16:42 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406170629.09691.adaplas@hotpop.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: adaplas@pol.net, benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: James Simmons , Andrew Morton , Linux Fbdev development list 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 ;-) >=20 > Do you mind submitting a patch yourself? It's probably a 1 liner patch= ,=20 > unless we also modify rivafb to use cfb_* drawing functions depending o= n > 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 caf=E9 night in Atlanta, away=20 from my TNT2 testing box ) > > The driver still doesn't play nice with the evil binary nvidia driver= s, > > but then, that's expected. (It'd be nice if changing from X to aa > > console didn't *crash my machine* though.) >=20 > 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=20 something? -dte ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND