Subject: Re: HEADS UP: initial wscons for RiscPC/A7000 committed
To: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/26/2001 23:09:32
> Hiya Richard,
> 
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl said:
> > >  The old vidcconsole keeps working as does X.
> >
> > Not for me it doesn't.
> 
> Traced it down !! I've patched the .../arm32/vidc/console/vidcrender.c ;
> there was a bug in the ioctl handling that made `setvideo' mess things up.

Yep, that's done the trick.  Thanks.

> Also there was a combinational effect of you not mentioning this mode in
> your config file (1152x900 was there but not 1152x864) and the fact that
> the fallback mode it uses was 1024x768 wich cant be run in 16bpp ... the
> mmap went wrong then too.

Hmm, I've never changed the modes entries in the kernel config. I've 
always done it by having /etc/monitor.conf point to a mode file for my 
monitor.

R.