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From: Christer Weinigel <wingel@acolyte.hack.org>
To: jfbeam@bluetronic.net
Cc: zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz, pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, pierre.ficheux@openwide.fr,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 AND Geode GX1/200Mhz problem
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:45:04 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020413204504.6B104F5B@acolyte.hack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0204111246400.29312-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net> (message from Ricky Beam on Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:51:29 -0400 (EDT))

Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> wrote:
> On a side note, has anyone seen dd scrolling behavior with video chipse
> using shared memory?  On the geode board I'm playing with, the screen
> never scrolls correctly.  It's probablly something stupid in the 5530's
> setup that's at fault. (I have ever intention of turning the VGA port
> off entirely.)

The VSA CGA/EGA/VGA text emulation seems to be rather awful and has
lots of bugs.  Compile in the VESA framebuffer support in your Linux
kernel and add vga=785 (see linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) to
your kernel command line.  It's a choice of:

    Linux kernel frobs the text console -> buggy VSA emulation -> framebuffer

or

    Linux kernel frobs the framebuffer directly

Guess which works better?  *grin*

  /Christer

-- 
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-13 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-07 23:19 2.4.18 AND Geode GX1/200Mhz problem Pierre Ficheux
2002-04-07 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-08  9:30   ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-08 11:12     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-04-11 16:51       ` Ricky Beam
2002-04-13 19:08         ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 20:45         ` Christer Weinigel [this message]
2002-04-08 12:58     ` Pierre Ficheux

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