matroxfb and 2.6.0-test2
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Quoted 15 lines · Petr Vandrovec
Quoted 9 lines · Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Quoted 6 lines · Petr Vandrovec
Unless it gets proven that it is bug in kernel's matroxfb and not in generic fbcon (== if you'll send me a patch, I'll apply it; but do not expect that I'll hunt down bugs which do not occur with matroxfb-2.5.72 addon), I recommend you applying ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.5.72.gz. It reinstates back fbcon layer I understand & trust...
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2 other problems went away with your patch. When I reported no screen corruption I was wrong since it messed everything returning from XFree86, including getting a dump of a Windows reboot. The other is the boot logo, which now appears.
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I think that screen corruption is just timming issue, and you should see it... On PII/333, with G400, Debian's XF4.2.1-9, if I set clocks in Gnome2 to show seconds, hardware is again reprogrammed every second by XFree on the background...
Here Athlon XP 1700+, XFree86 4.3.0.1, IceWM 1.2.9. Clocks with seconds on both window manager and screen, but it happens without them and if I just startx and close it. As I reported it doesn't happen with your patch, but I may be seeing the other "problem" you mentioned at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D105908939813118&w=3D2
"BTW, with my patch accented characters works correctly only on VT1. I'm not sure how it behaves on Linus tree..."
Same behavior without your patch. Here I use setfont lat1-16.psfu in my init scripts. All accents work on the first console but on the others most miss them for capitals.