From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39A2F6C7.F2743BF7@student.ethz.ch> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:55:19 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: <200008222115.XAA00745@piglet.grunz.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/