Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:39:00 +0200 (MEST)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
       James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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       Rusty Trivial Russell <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Typo in Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Vertical retrace is in lines, not pixels.

That's correct. James, please apply.

> --- Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt.orig       2004-06-03 22:43:06.000000000 +0200
> +++ Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt    2004-06-03 22:43:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ We'll say that the horizontal scanrate i
>      1/(32.141E-6 s) = 31.113E3 Hz
>
>  A full screen counts 480 (yres) lines, but we have to consider the vertical
> -retrace too (e.g. 49 `pixels'). So a full screen will take
> +retrace too (e.g. 49 `lines'). So a full screen will take
>
>      (480+49)*32.141E-6 s = 17.002E-3 s
>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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