Subject: Re: ofb proposal
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/02/2005 10:22:33
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:46:14AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> >This looks like what I was getting on my tibook with the default
> >radeon driver.  After I took the resolution-changing/BIOS code out
> >of the driver (disabled it, really), I didn't see this type of thing.
> >It really freaked me out the first time I saw it--it looked like the
> >screen was melting.
> >
> Now that's really weird - I'm sure the machfb driver doesn't even 
> attempt to play with anything output-related and the blitter shouldn't 
> freak it out like that. But I'll have another look, maybe I didn't see 
> something.

Just to be absolutely clear...  I saw the screen freak out when I was
playing with X.  When I exited the X server and the X driver (XFree 3.3?)
tried to restore the screen settings, it did that number.

-allen

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