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SubjectRe: radeonfb patch for 2.4.22...
James Simmons wrote:

>>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?
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>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.
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So, basically, it's normal, as I thought.

Perhaps a quick clear screen as it's initialized would be good...


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