controlfb update

Jason Y. Sproul jsproul at mail.wesleyan.edu
Wed May 26 07:13:54 EST 1999


On Tue, 25 May 1999, Jason Y. Sproul wrote:

> Now that the dual-bank stuff is in, my boot logo and colours in X are
> rather munged [...] I changed the colour mode returned to the fb
> subsystem when using CMODE_32 from DIRECTCOLOR to TRUECOLOR?

Okay, just shoot me for that one. Doh! (Note to self: Don't "fix" things
you don't fully understand.)

I'm still having intermittent problems with jerky scrolling on the console,
though. Not sure what's going on there... it seems it may happen only after
running X once. Is there some magic in the hardware panning? I have no clue
how this works just yet.

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