From: Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
To: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Video driver bug
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 01:34:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001008013431.A1138@ibrium.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.1001007134822.9961B-100000@ofey.earthlink.net>; from toe@unlserve.unl.edu on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:50:49PM -0500
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:50:49PM -0500, Takashi Oe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > > This problem is observable if one starts MOL from the console. MOL
> > > changes the video mode on an inactive console in order to extract
> > > certain video mode parameters (like rowbytes).
>
> Is there anything wrong with using FB_ACTIVATE_TEST flag for this usage?
> With the flag, you get a legal var and active fb is untouched.
>
Well, using the FB_ACTIVATE_TEST only tells me whether a particular
mode is acceptable or not. I need the information encoded in the
fix structure which is only available for the active mode.
/Samuel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-07 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-07 11:38 Video driver bug Samuel Rydh
2000-10-07 17:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-07 18:50 ` Takashi Oe
2000-10-07 23:34 ` Samuel Rydh [this message]
2000-10-10 1:43 ` [linux-fbdev] " James Simmons
2000-10-10 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-10 13:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-11 3:18 ` James Simmons
2000-10-13 20:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-10-13 22:42 ` Takashi Oe
2000-10-14 16:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-17 0:22 ` James Simmons
2000-10-16 22:20 ` Samuel Rydh
2000-10-17 11:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-18 4:09 ` James Simmons
2000-10-21 13:22 ` Samuel Rydh
2000-10-14 6:36 ` James Simmons
2000-10-14 10:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-14 12:24 ` Samuel Rydh
2000-10-11 0:05 ` James Simmons
2000-10-10 19:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-11 5:23 ` James Simmons
2000-10-14 16:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-14 17:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-10-15 11:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-17 0:03 ` James Simmons
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