Re: X screen wraps around

[Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@iogram.ch>]

Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > > > Depth 8               Result: screen off by about +22 pixels
> > > > Depth 15      Result: screen position ok
> > > > Depth 16      Result: screen position ok, colours no good
> > >
> > > Normal - XFree doesn't cope with 565 (16 bit) color for me either.
> >
> > It's a framebuffer device bug. Definitely.
> 
> Maybe it's changed but when I patched 565 support into atyfb last year
> XFree (4.0-ani) still wouldn't cope. I'm fairly certain I didn't do the
> atyfb patch different from Geert's.

X used to be broken as well (Gerd Knorr probably tried to compensate for the
broken framebuffer devices) but I fixed it for 4.0.2 with Geert's help.
aty128fb is broken too, haven't figured out how to do 565 yet. :(


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