Re: [CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA] Mirrored characters on the console on a G5

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Friday 15 April 2005 00:52, Francois wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> > Only characters are mirrored, and not the entire row (ie, row starts at
> > the left side, and not at the right)?
>
> Only the characters (so I can't look in a mirror and have a "normal" screen
> :-).
>
> > Can you try fbset -accel false and see if it helps?
>
> Right on the spot! I can now switch between mirrored and not mirrored.

You can also append this when you boot:

video=nvidiafb:noaccel

so you don't have to do an fbset -accel false each time.

>
> > I think rivafb supports this particular chipset, but without
> > acceleration.
>
> Actually my X display is garbled with rivafb (with which console
> characters are fine). With fb_nvidia, X seems to work fine independently
> of whether the acceleration is switched on or off (some screen size and
> frequency issues needs tuning though).
>
> > If it does, this is a problem with nvidia's imageblit function which
> > converts big-endian bitmaps to little endian?  Perhaps the help
> > reverse_order() is not needed for your arch.  Can you comment out calls
> > to reverse_order() in drivers/video/nvidia/nv_accel.c?
>
> I'll try this and I'll get back to you this the results.
>

I'll wait, thanks.

Tony




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