Subject: Re: 1.5 wscons and X look wrong at some resolutions - fixed yet?
To: Derek Peschel <dpeschel@eskimo.com>
From: Lasse =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hiller=F8e?= Petersen <lhp@toft-hp.dk>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/18/2001 13:07:30
At 12:15 +0100 18/12/01, Derek Peschel wrote:

>I finished testing X.  And as I suspected, it doesn't know abou the
>gaps that are required in video memory when linebytes is greater than
>the true width.  (Suppose the width is 640 and linebytes is 768.
>Pixels (0, 0) through (639, 0) will be in the correct place.  Pixels
>(0, 1) through (127, 1) will be invisible.  Pixel (128, 1) will be
>directly under pixel (0, 0).  And so on.)

Is this the same problem I see on my iMac? In some resolutions, the screen
is "striped", and in some there is a strange step. A fix for this would
finally allow me to use NetBSD on this machine for daily work.

-Lasse