some stuff about controlfb in 2.2

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> My question is: How can we improve the support for the controlfb? The
> xf4 patch is needed to remove the offset problem. It is no perfect yet.
> 16bit does not work, colors are screwed up. 8bit has some shift to the
> left (proably one byte/ 8 pixels). 24bit worked fine with 832x624 on the
> 7500. I can not use that high colordepth on the 7600, only 2mb vram.

What exactly do you mean? What is the problem? Is it that smem_start is not on
a page boundary? If yes, this worked fine in XFree86 3.3.x.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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