Control fb problem on 8500

[Michael Schmitz]

> > It does support that, if not directly then certainly via shadowfb. Maybe the
> > shadowfb RefreshArea function would have to be modified to take account of
> > this.
>
> That's not even needed, the fbdev driver is just broken. Line 430:
>
> 	pScrn->displayWidth = pScrn->virtualX; /* FIXME: might be wrong */
>
> is indeed wrong. virtualX is obvious, but displayWidth should be the memory
> pitch of a scanline.

That would indeed be silly.

> Now you just have to find out where to get the correct value for displayWidth.

Something like xres*bpp/8 ??

	Michael


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