Hi, i have a Rev 1 blue G3 with the ATI128 card, i am running kernel 2.2.15 from pauls tree (pre20, will be final 2.2.15 next time i reboot)
ever since i started using kernels with aty128 frambuffer support (2.2.14) i have had this really agrivating problem: whenever i switch VCs, almost without fail the screen goes black for about 2 full seconds then slowly fades back in. its as if it goes into powersave for a second and wakes up again. its driving me INSANE!! 1) has anyone else with this hardware seen this obnoxious behavior? 2) does anyone have any idea how to fix this obnoxious behavior? here is fbset -v -s -i output: Linux Frame Buffer Device Configuration Version 2.1 (23/06/1999) (C) Copyright 1995-1999 by Geert Uytterhoeven Opening frame buffer device `/dev/fb0' Using current video mode from `/dev/fb0' mode "1024x768-75" # D: 78.740 MHz, H: 60.015 kHz, V: 75.019 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8 timings 12700 158 34 28 1 96 3 hsync high vsync high rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Getting further frame buffer information Frame buffer device information: Name : ATY Rage128 Address : 0x88000000 Size : 16777216 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR XPanStep : 8 YPanStep : 1 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 1024 MMIO Address: 0x80900000 MMIO Size : 8191 Accelerator : Unknown (32) I use the VCs extensivly and this problem really makes that hard. and BTW i do not run X on this machine. TIA -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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