[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH 0/2] Rotate Patch explanation

Mitch Davis mjd-xorg-driver-geode at afork.com
Wed Jul 14 16:51:18 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Cui, Hunk <Hunk.Cui at amd.com> wrote:
>
> The second patch is used for fix the Rotate operation (exaOffscreenAlloc
> method), Deled prepare allocate mechanism. Use exaOffscreenAlloc
> allocate the shadow buffer. Rotateeddata has to be allocate in offscreen
> memory range.
> Graphic memory >=10Mb (In BIOS setup)
> *Ubuntu Bugzilla #377929

I tried the patch.  The good news is that it still rotates the screen.

I still can't run it from a VT (I have to put a sleep in front of the
xrandr and then switch to X), and I don't know if this fixes
specifying rotation in xorg.conf, but at least it still rotates :-)

Mitch.


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