Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2 pm3fb questions/problesm ...

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I have 800x600 fbdev, with the default fonts. i guess that makes it
> more than 80x30, not sure thogh.

100 cols x 37 rows
 
> It more seems to be like the only partwith garbage is the original vga handled
> stuff, and not the other way around.
> 
> (note there where problems with vga fontmap getting corrupted when launching
> X, so there may be some problem with the vga text mode handling of the board,
> maybe due to the gamma chip being used as bridge to the agp bus. we solved it
> by hand saving the fontmap memory, and not using the vga functions of X).

Hum. Try this patch and let me know if it works.


diff -urN vgacon.c.orig vgacon.c
--- vgacon.c.orig       Tue Jun 19 16:16:32 2001
+++ vgacon.c    Tue Jun 19 16:19:22 2001
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@
                c->vc_visible_origin = vga_vram_base;
                vga_set_mem_top(c);
                con_free_unimap(c->vc_num);
+               if (!vga_is_gfx)
+                       scr_memsetw((void *)vga_vram_base,
+				c->vc_video_erase_char, c->vc_screenbuf_size);
        }
        c->vc_uni_pagedir_loc = &c->vc_uni_pagedir;
        con_set_default_unimap(c->vc_num);