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Subject: Re:Re: matroxfb problems with dualhead G400
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:15:52 +0200
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Monday, September 03, 2001 4:51 PM, You wwrote:
> On  3 Sep 01 at 0:25, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> > [ software scroll back kills on dualhead ]
>
> You must boot your kernel with 'video=scrollback:0'. Otherwise your
> kernel die sooner or later... JJ's scrollback code does not cope with
> more than one visible console, so you must disable it if you have more
> than one display in the box.
>                                                 Petr Vandrovec

could we somehow detect in register_framebuffer that whe're going
multihead and disable software scrolling ?

I didn't look at the code so i don't know if it's feasible , just a
suggestion ..

ghoz