controlfb problem (on XFree86-4.0.1 off the penguinppc.org deve lopment tree)

[Michel Lanners]

On  21 Nov, this message from Jens Tingleff echoed through cyberspace:
>> That problem I fixed for me with a patch you can find here:
>>
>> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/xf4.html
>>
>
> Actually, I did roll this patch into my modifications. Could it be that
> the development tree on penguinppc.org doesn't have these patches at
> the moment?

That could be; I never got any positive feedback of any patch that fixes
this problem getting close enough to official XFree to be swallowed ;-)

The patch I'm using isn't clean enough for that... and it might even not
work for all resolutions/depths; never tried...

Cheers

Michel

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