Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] screen gets divided in 2

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

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Alberto Alonso wrote:
> I have an interesting problem.
> 
> I have a Gemini C1 graphics card, which is based on the
> ET6000 chip but is adapted for fixed frequency monitors.
> 
> When I run a 2.4.17 kernel with fb enabled the screen gets
> divided in half, changing the text to a rather short font so that
> it shows the same contents on both halves of the screen.
>
> I can log in and use the system normally, I can even
> scrool after using cat on a long file. (both screen scroll
> at the same time).

I guess you're using vesafb, since AFAIK there's no native driver for the
ET6000 yet?

> If I log in and switch to runlevel 5,  X windows fires up
> normally and it doesn't have any of the splitting problems.

X uses it's own driver.

> However switching back to a VT will exhibit the problems.
> 
> Any idea as to what I should be doing to fix the problem?
> What files should I be looking at to figure out what is
> going on?

Since vesafb uses the video card as programmed by the BIOS code, there's
nothing you can do, except for writing a native ET6000 frame buffer device.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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