Re: vesafb in v2.1.110

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:29:08 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> Further to my previous message - I've been experimenting and I *like* this
> 1280x768 @ 256 a lot - vga=ask mode 0307 - and gives 160 columns by 64
> rows. Works a treat and I can see everything incl. the penguin logo.
> Unfortunately, the scroll-back feature doesn't work anymore -
> Geert/Martin, are you aware of this problem?

Yes, with frame buffer devices, scrollback is available if you have a virtual
screen only. In that case, the scrollback buffer is just the graphical image
that was scrolled by (using panning). Vesafb does not support virtual screens
and thus no panning.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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