Re: 2.6.7 still garbage upon start

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

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:13:03PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Saturday 19 June 2004 11:08, David Eger wrote:
> >
> > with my cirrusfb driver and your patch, the area to the right of the
> > penguins is cleared, but the area where the text is drawn still has
> > white rectangle crud that scrolls off the screen.
> 
> Most probably, you are initializing your graphics card  before you register 
> the framebuffer.  You should not do it, but only on an explict fb_set_par() 
> call. 

You're absolutely correct.  

Unfortunately, removing the set_par() call from the PCI driver probe
code uncovered another problem.  For some reason, the VGA register writes
have to happen twice for the settings to take.  Jeff, this seems really
weird to me.  Do you have any idea why?  I sorta hate to leave in the hack:

cirrusfb_set_par_foo (info) {
	/* real register writes ... */
}

cirrusfb_set_par (info) {
	cirrusfb_set_par_foo (info);
	return cirrusfb_set_par_foo (info);
}

-dte


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