Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271606AbTGQXIA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:08:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271617AbTGQXIA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:08:00 -0400 Received: from bgp01116707bgs.westln01.mi.comcast.net ([68.42.104.61]:12056 "HELO blackmagik.dynup.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271606AbTGQXH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:07:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3F172693.2060701@blackmagik.dynup.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:43:31 -0400 From: Eric Blade User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Simmons CC: petero2@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: radeonfb patch for 2.4.22... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1102 Lines: 37 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? >> >> > >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. > > > > > > So, basically, it's normal, as I thought. Perhaps a quick clear screen as it's initialized would be good... -- ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.1 GB/CS/MC/MU/O @d+ s:- a- C++++ UL++++ !P L+++ !E W+++ !N !o K? w--- @O++ !M !V PS+ PE- Y PGP- @t 5? X R tv-- b- DI++ D++ G e* h* r y+ ----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/