Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] writing a framebuffer driver and font problem..

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote:
> I hope someone here can help me. I've started writing support for the b/w
> framebuffer on
> VAXstation for the Linux/VAX project. And I've got so far that it sort-of
> works, I can output text
> on the framebuffer and such. Problem is that all font are flipped/mirrored,
> like a "b" looks like "d", this picture
> might show it a little bit better: http://home.tal.org/~milang/vax/2.html
> And as you can se from the picture the logo looks strange.
> 
> What might be the problem, and what should I do to fix it ?
> 
> I'm totaly new a writing kernel code so it might be something obvious that
> I'm missing.

Are you using 2.4 or 2.6?

You have to swap the character data in
drivers/video/fbcon-mfb.c:fbcon_mfb_putc{,s}() (2.4.x) or
drivers/video/cfbimgblt.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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