Re: 2.1.109p2 on UDB

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:41:06 +0200

On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > So now the TGA FB is working, but you can brew yourself a cup of coffee
> > while the screen scrolls. And you can't even switch VC while it is
> > scrolling. Wasnt there something mentioned about changing the
> > scrolling method by defining a different SCROLL_* flag?
>
> Add
>
> disp.scrollmode = SCROLL_YREDRAW;
>
> after the assignment to disp.dispsw in drivers/video/tgafb.c This will enable
> Jakub Jelinek's smart scrolling. Even beats bitblit on my PCI ATI.
>
> Please let me know if it works, so I can check in the patches at vger.
>

Works like a charm. So only thing to work out is where the PCI code
screwup occured. Could it be that there is a difference between the VGER
tree and Linus' tree? That would explain why the CPP constants *_DENSE_MEM
have been replaced by a CPP macro DENSE_MEM(x)...

Ah and a here is another dumb question: how does one disable cursor blinking?
Couldn't find an option to fbset which would do that.

Three cheers to Geert and Jakub!
Dominik

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                         Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)


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