Re: 4.4.99.903: s3: missing some of the screen

Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Németh Márton wrote:

> Starting XFree86 4.4.99.903 using the s3 driver at mode 1024x768 8bpp I see 
> the following screen:

>      0     303                   1023
>      |      |                      |
> 0 ---BBBBBBBB----------------------+
>      BBBBBBBB                      |
>      BBBBBBBB                      |
>      BBBBBBBB       GOOD AREA      |
>      BBBBBBBB                      |
>      BBBBBBBB                      |
> 767--BBBBBBBB----------------------+

> where B means that black pixels are displayed always.

> I don't know what is the problem exactly but the attached patch removes this 
> bug. (May cause new ones, too...)

> chip:
> -----
> S3 Trio64V+
>   P1E3BF
> 86C765
> 9650 MB851
> TAIWAN

> VGA BIOS:
> ---------
> Phoenix S3 TRIO64V+ Enhanced VGA BIOS. Version 1.02-02
> Copyright 1987-1992 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
> Copyright 1992-1995 S3 Incorporated.
> All Rights Reserved

> lspci -v:
> ---------
> 0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] 
> (rev 54) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
>        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]

Could you try the attached instead?  This one also fixes a few other problems 
I noticed.

Thanks.

Marc.

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