Re: Vesafb & less on console Bug ?

Mike (mike@oxlug.org)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:42:47 +0100 (GMT)


On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:

> > Kernel 2.2.x - 2.2.5 and vesafb on console (This did work under
> > 2.1.125 as far as I can remember )
> >
> > sound
> > (mpg123) stops until the 50 lines are scrolled and it needs severals
> > seconds to scroll the lines on
> > my 350 AMD !!. Every task on the machine seems to stop working as long
> > as
> > the lines are scrolled back.
> >
> > I believe this is a bug.
>
> I can't really help, but the TGA framebuffer on this Multia scrolls back
> instantly and so does the Matroxfb on my G200 on my mainbox does the same.

Matroxfb on a 2Mb Mystique, Dual PII 350, has the same problems, but
worse. Even an ls -al --color in a large directory causes mp3s to stop,
and an DMA timeout from the soundcard.

-- 
Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>

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