On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:38:46PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > I noticed one thing, and that is that the mach64 used to use software
> > cursor it seems (I remember wondering why atyfb_cursor was never used
> > anywhere). It's now using the hw cursor.
>
> Yeap. I'm in the process of getting several driver to use there hardware
> cursors.
>
> > Also, I notice with this new code that the random vertical shifting of
> > the console doesn't occur anymore like it does with current 2.6.0-test8
> > code. For as long as I can remember 2.6.0-test, and way back into
> > 2.5.5x, this has been a problem with highly active console programs
> > (mutt, vim, etc...). Good to see it's going away :)
>
> :-)
>
> I have fixed the problems you have reported. I have a newer patch. Note
> this is updated with the LCD support. I like to see if the patch works on
> sparc. I has updates from the latest 2.4.X kernels. Please give it a try.
>
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
>
> Let me know the results.
FYI, this new code is working for me on my Blade100. The cursor is much
better now.
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