On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:28:42PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > as fbi (the frame buffer image viewer) also wraps the screen, albeit on the > > other side, does this mean we are barking up the wrong config? > > perhaps this is a kernel thing... > > Unlikely. As I mentioned already, I suspect both fbi and X handle the > framebuffer offset incorrectly, both in different ways. > > Someone would really have to clean up the offset handling in fbdevhw.c and/or > fbdev.c, I can't really do it because I don't have hardware where this > applies.
Michael Lanners has some more intelligent (than mine) documentation on this problem, as well as the beginnings of a fix. See http://mcp.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/xf4.html Should someone file a bug against xserver-fbdev ? I could try, but recent controversy on the signal-to noise ratio in the bug tracking system have made me wary of proceeding. Bruce.
