Re: radeonfb patch for 2.4.22...

James Simmons
2003-07-17T17:14:30Z

> This has been happening to me on my Radeon and on my Voodoo 3 for as
> long as there has been framebuffers and they have in fact compiled and
> worked. I thought this was normal?

Its caused from switching from text mode to graphics mode. Take for
example I have grabbed th epci regions for my voodoo card and then wrote
to them. This was done before I switched to graphics mode. It messed up my
vga text screen. So when we go from text to graphics we have stale data.