Re: sisfb: two more little problems

[James Simmons]

> Besides the problems with mode switching with fbcon, I have two other
> problems with sisfb:
> 
> 1. My gpm mouse cursor on the framebuffer console is a cyan rectangle
> with a bright orange "G" in it.  Actually the G has a "^" accent over
> it.  That's just when it's over a blank spot.  When I move it over other
> characters, the character in the pointer changes.  However, it does work
> for selecting text.

Try my latest patch. It should fix this. 

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

Let me know how it works out for you.
 
> 2. I can't seem to set the default video mode from the kernel command
> line.  I have tried:
> 
> video=sis:1024x768-24@75
> video=sisfb:1024x768-24@75
> 
> and neither one works.  What is the expected command line?

It is video=sisfb:...

Hm. It should work.