Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: [patch] vesafb panning: scrollback support and nice speedup

# Re: [patch] vesafb panning: scrollback support and nice speedup

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:34:42 +0200 (CEST)

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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > * "video=vesa:ywrap" enables ywrap. The poor man's cat benchmark takes
> > 0.5 sec with this one, but gives a "black hole" at the end of video
> > memory for me. Seems my gfx board can't do wrap-around...
>
> What version is the Matrox's BIOS? If it's older than v1.8, try upgrading.

Was 1.5. Upgrade did'nt help :-(

Next step ahead: vesafb uses the protected mode interface for palette
changes too.

Gerd

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