Re: RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel

On Mon, Jul 09, Jeff Rugen wrote:

I did have VGA console be the default, and installed clgenfb as a module.

Is there a way to rmmod the module later?
The colors are wrong in X whit >8bit and the console is slow with fbcon :)

On a related note, the endianness issue with gpm seems to also show up
when running the VGA console -- any text that is written to a non-visible
virtual terminal is not byte-swapped, so it appears to be garbage when you
switch back to that virtual terminal.  This isn't a problem when running
clgenfb as the terminal though (I don't know how gpm worked in either
mode).

The attached patch fix that, but it seems to be wrong.
Geert said the shadow buffer is stored in native endian. The VGA text
console itself is the "shadow buffer" for the foreground console and
little endian.



Gruss Olaf

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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:

On Mon, Jul 09, Jeff Rugen wrote:

quoted

I did have VGA console be the default, and installed clgenfb as a module.

Is there a way to rmmod the module later?
The colors are wrong in X whit >8bit and the console is slow with fbcon :)

I haven't tried removing it, but as far as I know, support for that still
isn't there.  I tended to use Xbh rather than XFBDev for my X server,
because Xbh it at least had some acceleration in it.  But I am still using
3.3.6 (or something like that) for X.  I don't know if Xbh is downloadable
from anywhere these days, but I had planned on playing with X once 2.4.x
is relatively stable on my machine.  What version of X do people run on
the PowerStack these days (if at all)?


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