[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage Mobility external monitor problem.

[Stelian P. <ste...@fr...>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:06:28AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> > When the framebuffer code is compiled into the kernel, external
> > monitor picture is blurred. Since is rather hard to explain,
> > here is a picture of the monitor taken with an digital camera:
> > 	http://spop.free.fr/xfree/xfree-monitor.jpg
> 
> > If the framebuffer code is _not_ compiled into the kernel,
> > external monitor works fine (note that this was not the case with
> > XFree 4.1.0, only the CVS version contains the fixes to make it
> > happen).
> 
> > I've also noted that even without launching X, when using the
> > framebuffer, the external display picture is blurred too. However,
> > in text mode this is hardly noticable.
> 
> It sounds to me that atyfb isn't dealing with shadow registers properly.

Marcel, as the original developer of the Vaio specific part of the
code, do you have an idea on what needs to be done ?

I would gladly test any kernel framebuffer patch any time, 
however I'm not good enough in fb / video code to search by
myself the problem.

Thanks,

Stelian.
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