[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re:Re: matroxfb problems with dualhead G400

[Ghozlane T. <gt...@me...>]

Monday, September 03, 2001 4:51 PM, You wwrote:
> On  3 Sep 01 at 0:25, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> > [ software scroll back kills on dualhead ]
>
> You must boot your kernel with 'video=scrollback:0'. Otherwise your
> kernel die sooner or later... JJ's scrollback code does not cope with
> more than one visible console, so you must disable it if you have more
> than one display in the box.
>                                                 Petr Vandrovec

could we somehow detect in register_framebuffer that whe're going
multihead and disable software scrolling ?

I didn't look at the code so i don't know if it's feasible , just a
suggestion ..

ghoz