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SubjectRe: radeonfb broken


Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I am using the radeonfb on a Radeon 9600 Pro with a TFT display, and
> radeonfb very recently started to give me a picture at all, so I am
> quite happy about that.
>
> However, running mplayer does not work at all on radeonfb. mplayer
> inquires about the color depth, I am using 32 bit color depth for this,
> but radeonfb says it's DirectColor instead of TrueColor, so mplayer
> tries to initialize the palette and fails.
>
> Also, using fbset to set the mode to 1600x1200 fails. The mode is
> changed, but the text console resolution stays the same. Worse, a
> "setfont" changes back to 1024x768.
>
> Also, I cannot view images on console with fbi or fbv.
>
> Felix


What annoys me most about the Radeon driver is the off-by-one error in
the bmove routine. Whenever text is copied to the right or down, it
gets positioned incorrectly. I posted the fix, but no one paid attention.

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