From: Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>
To: mlan@cpu.lu
Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Control fb problem on 8500
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:55:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39A2F6C7.F2743BF7@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200008222115.XAA00745@piglet.grunz.lu
Michel Lanners wrote:
> supposing someone actually finds out how control's hardware cursor works,
> and supposing someone would actually take the time to implement this,
> wouldn't we need to provide a XFree driver as well? I guess plain fbdevhw
> doesn't support hw cursor...
Don't think that there are fbdev ioctls to control it either.
> In that event, would it be possible to address the above-mentioned flaw
> in XFree in that particular driver, or is the problem more geneic (i.e.
> littered throughout the source tree)?
No, the driver can handle it very easily by setting pScrn->displayWidth to the
correct value.
The problem with the fbdev driver is that it should know that value before it
possibly can (before the mode is initialized).
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-22 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-15 17:45 Control fb problem on 8500 Kevin M. Myer
2000-08-15 18:26 ` Michel D nzer
2000-08-15 19:41 ` Michel Lanners
2000-08-18 21:02 ` Michel Lanners
2000-08-19 6:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2000-08-19 7:18 ` Michel Lanners
2000-08-19 11:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-19 14:15 ` XF4 hangs on 2.4 kernel (was: Re: Control fb problem on 8500) Michel Lanners
2000-08-19 15:16 ` Martin Costabel
2000-08-23 12:18 ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-08-19 12:12 ` Control fb problem on 8500 Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-21 11:25 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-21 13:19 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-21 16:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-21 17:11 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-19 13:20 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-21 8:57 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-21 10:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-21 13:14 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-21 16:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-22 8:33 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-22 9:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-22 10:14 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-22 21:15 ` Michel Lanners
2000-08-22 21:55 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-08-23 11:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-22 21:10 ` Michel Lanners
2000-08-22 22:39 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-23 8:11 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-23 8:21 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-21 11:33 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-19 14:40 ` David Riley
[not found] <200008160459.XAA20764@lists.linuxppc.org>
2000-08-22 10:51 ` William H. Schultz
2000-08-22 11:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-22 16:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-23 14:03 ` William H. Schultz
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