Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB console clears with large white area

[Jani M. <ja...@iv...>]

The way it disappeared for me was by not calling do_set_var in trident
init.It was called before register_frambuffer.I thought I posted to the
list last week but it seems I only replied to Jim.
Antonio Daplas suggested that the card should not be in graphics mode when
registering the fb.See the list archives subject: tridentfb review some
months ago)


 > I suspect that all/most FB drivers (I think Jani works
round it with
> tridentfb) will show this problem. But to see it you need to be switching from
> a VGA console to a FB console - if I remove the VGA console from my kernel
> everything looks fine - so this problem will only practically be seen on PCs.
> And there are not many reasons to use FB on a PC.