From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA62972 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:40:54 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA00562 for linux-list; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:39:18 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA27744 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:39:16 -0800 (PST) mail_from (sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id NAA03245 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:39:13 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:39:10 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m10NkVI-002OydC; Thu, 18 Mar 99 22:39 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA02218; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:35:25 +0100 Message-ID: <19990318223524.B2195@alpha.franken.de> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:35:24 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: mdhill@genxl.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: newport console problems, some hardware questions References: <19990315220341.C2301@alpha.franken.de> <9903180745.ZM1473@mdhill.genxl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <9903180745.ZM1473@mdhill.genxl.com>; from Michael Hill on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:45:43AM -0500 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:45:43AM -0500, Michael Hill wrote: > > faster scrolling only with 1024 scanline screen modes. This slows > > down scrolling, and I hope there is a better solution (but I doubt it). > > This works well, Thomas. Now I can see what's happening on the screen. I > haven't run into any problems with the scrolling speed yet (I don't notice a > difference just by watching it). it isn't that bad, when the lines are only partially filled or whenever columns contain the same content. But there is a fix insight. I just have to figure out, how to completly clear the scrolled in scanlines. Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]