Bug#397438: Panel stays blank in MergedFB mode

[Alex Deucher]

On 12/22/06, Michel Dänzer <daenzer at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:26 -0700, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:01:03AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >Does Option "NoInt10" make a difference?
> >
> > I'm quite sure I've tried that already, but I'll try again tomorrow
> > morning.  It seems weird that the checksum problem would only show up in
> > one of the two runs with the same driver...
>
> Int10 is mostly handled outside of the driver. BTW, I'm not worrying
> about the checksum - that warning seems pretty common without causing
> problems - but about the fact that at least some registers seem to get
> clobbered with bogus values.
>

FWIW, when I was adding dualhead support to the r128 driver, the video
bios used to do weird things to the outputs as well.

Alex

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