Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:00:05PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:13:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > I have hopefully found the bug in the fbdev driver now, please test > > > > > > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/patches/fbdev-fboffset.diff > > > > > > or > > > > > > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/fbdev_drv.o > > > > > > which is the 4.1.0 fbdev driver built with the patch applied. If it > > > works, I'll submit it to Branden and upstream. > > > > I tried your patched fbdev_drv.o in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. > > There seems to be no change. I hope I put it in the right place!
Yep. Why can't anything just work? :-/ > > If you need the output of any command or configs just ask. Please send me your XF86Config and logs privately. > > Patching and building the driver is, I'm afraid, beyond me. (I probably > > don't have the free space anyway :-) ). That's fine, I can put up test binaries. > There is a slight change... the virtual screen does not scroll; instead it > wraps around underneath the 20 pixel margin and further... (hard to > describe.. I'll try a picture. That used to work before? > "ioctl FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument" was repeated many times in > the console. Sounds like your framebuffer device doesn't support panning in fact. > I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 with the kernel FB interface option > both off and on, with no discernible change. That option only applies to accelerated drivers. The fbdev driver uses that interface by design. :) > There is now also quite severe barrel distortion. > > <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 800 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -> > > <---> Around 20 pixels > > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | > > | |<- screen starts |<- virtual screen ends. > and ends > > <---> this portion, as well as the overlap part of the rest of the > <-overlap-----------> screen are both displaced downwards 1 > of virtual pixel. > screen. Thanks for trying to describe what you see, but I'm afraid I don't get the picture. You are using XFree86 4.1.0, aren't you? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
