Re: Little extra line at bottom of screen

Peter Horton (pdh@colonel-panic.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:29:28 +0100 (BST)

... you could just patch the kernel to turn on the linear frame buffer
itself. I've got a patch here for S3 cards, but it shouldn't be that
difficult to do the same for any card that X can turn it on for ...

P.

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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ely Wilson wrote:


> 
> On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, George wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm currently running standard vgacon on my Cirrus Logic GD 5430 (rev 71) 
> > video card with 2MB of RAM under 2.1.125.  In mode 8 (132x43), I get 3/4 of
> 
> I too have a Cirrus, a 5434 w/1 Meg..
> 
> 
> > a line at the bottom of the screen that is a section of the scrollback
> > buffer.  I'm not using vesafb (card doesn't support VESA 2.0 it seems). 
> 
> Yeah, no vbe2, now doesn't that suck (i'm thinking about emulation, but..)
> I had the same problem (just last night) with the same video mode, I used
> teh scrollback or switch vc's an dthere was leftover text at the bottom of
> teh screen.
> 
> > Booted with 'vga=8' as the only parameter. I can't select the line with gpm
> > either.
> 
> I think what causes it is that something has reported an invalid screen
> reolution during bootup and the last line (which is not a full line) was
> written to.  After boot everything appears to work fine (except for the
> obvious).
> 
> %---* ely * 
> 
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