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From: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
To: mk <mk@www0.org>
Cc: jsimmons@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problematic Radeon fb on 2.5.63
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:57:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030302065713.GA27809@triplehelix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030301160909.GA1604@www0.org>


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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:09:09PM +0000, mk wrote:
> This is Radeon 7500 QW on a VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]

Cool.. I've got a:
	radeonfb: ATI Radeon M6 LY DDR SGRAM 32 MB 

> Cursor does not appear on console, fbset changes are most likely
> to cause screen corruption or just black screen and what must effect all
> fb graphics support, choosing an fbdriver and not fb console support, is
> an accepted option (at least on menuconfig) having as a result blank
> screen on boot.

Should an fbdriver depend on CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE then? It seems 
wrong to me.

I have attached the fix for the cursor not appearing problem. James 
already has it in his own tree, why isn't it getting pushed to 
mainstream?

Regards
Josh

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--- linux/drivers/video/radeonfb.c-2.5.62	2003-01-03 01:31:42.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/video/radeonfb.c	2003-02-18 12:13:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -2212,6 +2212,7 @@
 	.fb_copyarea	= cfb_copyarea,
 	.fb_imageblit	= cfb_imageblit,
 #endif
+	.fb_cursor	= soft_cursor,
 };
 
 

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-02  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-01 16:09 Problematic Radeon fb on 2.5.63 mk
2003-03-02  6:57 ` Joshua Kwan [this message]

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