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From: Christer Weinigel <wingel@acolyte.hack.org>
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	(message from Ricky Beam on Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:51:29 -0400 (EDT))
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 AND Geode GX1/200Mhz problem
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:45:04 +0200 (CEST)
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Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> wrote:
> On a side note, has anyone seen dd scrolling behavior with video chipse
> using shared memory?  On the geode board I'm playing with, the screen
> never scrolls correctly.  It's probablly something stupid in the 5530's
> setup that's at fault. (I have ever intention of turning the VGA port
> off entirely.)

The VSA CGA/EGA/VGA text emulation seems to be rather awful and has
lots of bugs.  Compile in the VESA framebuffer support in your Linux
kernel and add vga=785 (see linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) to
your kernel command line.  It's a choice of:

    Linux kernel frobs the text console -> buggy VSA emulation -> framebuffer

or

    Linux kernel frobs the framebuffer directly

Guess which works better?  *grin*

  /Christer

-- 
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
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