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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:13:44 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
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Subject: Re: radeonfb broken
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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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