prob with fb on certain consoles only

Adam Heath (doogie@debian.org)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:06:04 -0600 (CST)


with this line: lilo 2.2.0-pre4-ac4 video=matrox:whatever video=vc:5-8

I have a matrox g200(agp), and a nvidia riva128(pci).

System loads fine. I have no probs with the multi-head setup.

Now, run stm on a text console. The kernel attempts to change the size of ALL
consoles, including the fb ones. It succeeds in changing the columns and
rows, but the graphics resolution is still the same! This makes for one
confused display. To fix, one must CHANGE the graphics res, then change back.

Also, it appears that gpm does NOT like consoles with different sizes. This
could be a bug in gpm, tho, not sure.

SVGATextmode has the capability to call an external prog after the console has
changed sizes. On my system, it restarts gpm. It would be nice if fbset
could be made to do this.

ps: I tried a simple patch to drivers/char/console, to test for the currcons
== fb, but it oopsed on bootup. I really don't know how to distinguish
between text and fb in the setup, so don't think that it can't be fixed.

Adam

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