Re: [pm3fb] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB console clears with large white area

[Sven <lu...@dp...>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:33:36AM +0200, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Jim Hague wrote:
> 
> > So Antonio's suggestion that the card should not be in graphics mode when
> > registering the FB is correct; registering needs to happen before the card is
> > switched away from VGA mode in any way. Simply removing the call to do_set_var
> > doesn't work for pm2fb; I think too much initialisation has happened by then.
> > Sven, pmfb is (I think) similar in this respect; any ideas?
> 
> Well, pm3fb definitely does do a bunch of initializations
> before registering. The attached patch *might* solve the
> problem (I use a PPC box so all that VGA crap is unknown to me...)
> All those who see the problem, please test and report.

Ok, i will try it (i suppose this is the 2.4.x tree, not yet thew 2.5.x ones,
am i right ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther