Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jones D (ISaCS)" <> | Subject | RE: fbcon cruft removal (continued). | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:01:18 +0100 |
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> > > You can also change to videomode which has > > > more lines than old (for example from 80x25 -> 80x34 > > > it will work without problems). And > > The BIOS is in 80x25 AFAIK, and I have in my LILO startup > > a line to switch to a different resolution. The onscreen cruft > > remains. > matroxfb without parameters start in 640x480 before 2.3.13 > and in 640x400 after 2.3.13. For new default, 25 - 4 (logo) < 25 :-( For 640x480, it > should work. Which LILO switches are you using? vga=XXX does > nothing good to matroxfb; video=matrox:vesa:0x105 works fine for me.
I'm using a video=matrox line, but I forget the mode number I'm using. I'll check it tonight.
> > btw, another framebuffer problem I have found. > > (This may be specific to matroxfb) > > Boot up in a higher resolution than default, > > Login, and do a command that outputs quite a few lines of text > > (enough to make screen scroll) 'lspci -vvv' works for me. > > When this is done, press shift & PGUP, and some chars don't > > get updated and remain onscreen. > You have strange system... When you are pressing shift-PgUp, are there > penguins on the screen or are not?
No. Once the PC has fully booted, I don't see the penguins again at all.
> So I think that problem is in scrollback code. Unfortunately, > I spent about two days with scrollback code and results was worse > than when I started :-(
Would this be a generic fbcon bug, or matrox specific ?
regards,
Dave.
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