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

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 30-Apr-2002 Sven wrote:
>> the reason was discovered to be from calling set_var before
>> register_framebuffer. 
> 
> Not sure about this one, because applying the patch from roman to 2.4.18 +
> pm3fb did hang the kernel early one (before registering the fbdev i think, it
> never switched away from the console text mode). That said, i don't get a
> white space stuff, but a green/black vertical stripes with some char embedded
> in the green ones.

I found similar with pm2fb; moving the call to register_framebuffer to before
mode setup caused the kernel to hang. No time in investigate further yet.

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