From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Subject: Re: 2.5.51 -- rivafb is whacky (characters flipped on vertical axis, 640x480 usable area shown inside a higher-res area, etc). Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:10:29 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3DF6D6D5.5060902@attbi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com ([216.148.227.88]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18M04y-0002b7-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:10:44 -0800 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Simmons Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net James, I appreciate all your hard work. I hope my bug report isn't too upsetting for you. I think you are making great progress. It is also a shame that so much of the driver porting has fallen on your shoulders. If I were a programmer. I'd help, but my skills are in software testing, for the most part. All the best, Miles James Simmons wrote: >>I have tried getting rivafb to work in 2.5.51. It is much better >>than before (thanks!). It compiles and sorta works. > > > Ug. Now that several drivers compile now I get bug reports :-( I'm getting > alot of positive feedback as well as one negative source. > > >>Here are the problems: >> >>When I run "fbset -a 640x480", I get display that fills >>the screen and looks okay, but most of the characters are >>flipped along the vertical axis, so they are backwards, so that: >> >>+---- ----+ >>| | >>+--- becomes ---+ >>| | >>| | > > > Okay. That is weird. I have this card so I will give it a try. > > >>Also, when I boot, the penguin logo looks like it is being rendered >>in about five colors. > > > Yipes. Imageblit sounds broken. > > >>In addition, the text is black, except for >>the white underscore cursor, so all I can see is the cursor. > > > I noticed this. The color palette is for some reason messed up. > > >>When the gpm gets loaded, the mouse pointer, instead of showing >>a white rectangle that, when it passes over a character, shows that >>character in reverse-video, shows a colored cursor that always >>contains some character. The character shown in the mouse cursor >>changes when it passes over text in the window, but it never shows >>the character it is passing over. > > > Same things. Color palette is messed up. > > >>Lastly, when I run "fbset -a 1600x1200", a 640x480 area shows >>a usable console window, but it is embedded in the larger high >>resolution display, like this: >> >> +---------+----------------+ >> | | | >> | | | >> | | | >> +---------+ | >> | | >> | | >> | | >> | | >> | | >> +--------------------------+ >> >>The area outside of the 640x480 boundary is filled with colored >>junk (no characters). >> >>Any ideas? > > > Yeap. I migrated changing the console from /dev/fb to actually using the > tty layer. I haven't merged those changes yet but you will be able to do a > > stty -f /dev/ttyX 80 col 50 row > > and change the video mode. > > So I didn't plan to push so soon but I kept getting emails about various > drivers being broken. So I did this push to make more drivers work. > Unfortuenly I sent a watered down fbcon system. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/