From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:37:06 +0200 (MEST)

Re: Debugging kgicon (vga and S3Virge)

> When I insmod the vga-driver, the debug info is also sent to the main
> screen, but there I can see something, but for some reason the characters
> mix up and are enlarged very much, each real pixel is about 8 or 16 pixels 
> horizontal on my screen, and
> one real line is two lines on my screen, so that mode is unusable.

Yes - this is a problem related to the wrong rendring lib being used.
The card is in planar-4 mode, but not used this way.

> Can anyone help me with this ? I'd like to help debugging and testing.

Something that works is changing the default mode in fbcon-kgi.c to

int kgicon_width   = 320;    /* initial geometry */
int kgicon_height  = 200;
int kgicon_bpp     = 8;

This gives a funny 40x12 console.

List: Does the 1 BPP renderer work ? It might work with VGA, too, if
the "by color" write-mode is engaged.

CU,ANdy

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= Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =