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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:19:27 -0700
From: Robert Emanuele <rob@...nuele.us>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jayakumar.lkml@...il.com
Subject: Re: broadsheetfb and fbcon
There are no module parameters for fbcon or broadsheetfb.
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Robert Emanuele wrote:
>> Greetings lkml and Jaya,
>>
>> I've been using the broadsheetfb graphics driver for a while now.
>> I've been trying to get it working with the fbcon console driver. Has
>> anyone had any success with that?
>>
>> While it "works", its performance is unusable as a console. It
>> redraws the whole screen every new line, which may be acceptable. A
>> real issue is when it tries to scroll the screen, it redraws each line
>> partially and then does a full screen update with each partial line.
>> It seems the driver is capable from Jaya's video at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bny6qyRDWw
>>
>> Are those kind of updates a limit of the broadsheet driver or fbcon?
>
> I thought there was an update value on how often it should redraw. Did
> you do a modinfo on the driver?
>> Or more hopefully, is there a configuration change to improve this?
>
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