Re: Re: [PATCH] New radeonfb fork

[paride <torn@autistici.org>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Looks like the PLL isn't locking properly. The latest driver I'll
> release (today hopefully) includes a workaround that _might_ help

I hope so, fixing this issue will make many toshiba and hp users very 
happy. There are two more thing I think it's better to tell you:

1) This happened also with the standard radeonfb. When the driver is 
loaded, the whole screen image is moded up of about 3 or 4 mm. So the 
upper part of the screen is cut, and at the bottom there is a black 
strip. "fbset -vsync high" fixes this perfectly, so this isn't a real 
problem, maybe is just a characteristic of my hardware, telling you 
shouldn't hurt.

2) when switching from x to console, happens that when the text scrolls 
outside the screen, it reappears in the bottom part of the screen, very 
bigger, and everything gets messed up. I don't know if this could be 
related to the flicker problem, but it never happened with the old 
radeonfb. Playing a bit with fbset solves the problem. I didn't 
understand exactly what causes this, I'm investigating.

paride



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