Re: buggy vesa framebuffer.
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo
> to:
> vga=0x301
> append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"
> ...
> But when i for exempel, do an 'ls' in a dir with lots of things in it..
> then
> the framebuffer gets buggish.. (dont know how to write buggy in that form.)
> ...
> At first.. ls prints out the things as it should.. but when the consol
> starts to scroll, then its only the bottom of the screen that scrolls.
> The top of the screen dont scroll at all.
>
> I have had this problem before, and not just with the card (TNT2) i
> have now. The i740 i had before did the same thing in vesa framebuffer.
>
> Do any one know how to fix this?
Hi, Kent
Have a look at the vesafb docs ...
Kernel/vesafb options include 'ywrap' which does not work with my TNT2
:( - should be faster. So i have to use 'ypan', slower but works.
My cmdline: ... video=vesa:mtrr,ypan,pmipal vga=791
HTH, greetings, martin
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