Re: Much better framebuffer fixes.

James Simmons wrote:

Okay. Here are more framebuffer fixes. Please try these fixes and let me 
know how they work out for you.

The cursor line on radeonfb now is solid, instead of the broken line
in 2.5.66.  It is still impossible to set the resolution.

The lilo approach:
append="video=radeonfb:1280x1024-24@60"
This seems to do nothing.  I get the same low resolution as
plain 2.5.66, which looks bad as it don't match the flat screen resolution.

The stty approach:
stty rows 64 cols 160 gives me an odd error message about
stdin being wrong.  Forcing it with -F /dev/tty
gives me lots of random colored text on the screen and the
scrolling is wrong afterwards.  Resolution don't change though.
I run devfs if that matters.

stty rows 25 cols 80 brought things back to normal, or so it seemed.
I switched back to X and noticed that most programs except ls
wouldn't run, they all segfaulted.  Something was wrong, and
a shutdown ended in a BUG in slab.c line 1557 and a hang.


A new thing with this patch is that I get a lot of junk displayed
to the side of the boot penguin. (Random colored letters).
  The junk disappear after a little while though.

Helge Hafting




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