Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> mode "1024x768-60"
>> # D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz
>> geometry 1024 768 1024 1020 32
>> timings 15464 144 40 29 3 136 6
>> rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
>> endmode
>
> For some reasons, you set your console to 32 bits mode. I never
> had cursors working properly in fbdev's with a bit depth different
> than 8 bits (and I also fail to see the interest in running the
> console with a different bit depth ;)
>
> the default depth beeing 8 bits, I suspect you are explicitely
> switching it to 32 some way. Try switching it back to 8.
>
> Ben.
>
Exactly!
Ben's estimation was the right one.
In the "kernel arguments" line of BootX I had the expression
`video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:95 hda=autotune', which I found
somewhere on the net as a hint.
After changing the expression to
`video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:8,mclk:95 hda=autotune', the cursor came back!
I also tried out colour bits of 15 and 16, but everything above 8 resulted
in a vanishing cursor.
Also the boot process seems to accelerate. Here are the `fbset' and `fbset
-x' outputs:
before the switch:
mode "1024x768-60"
# D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 1020 32
timings 15464 144 40 29 3 136 6
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
endmode
Mode "1024x768"
# D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz
DotClock 64.667
HTimings 1024 1064 1200 1344
VTimings 768 771 777 806
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
and after the switch:
mode "1024x768-60"
# D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 4080 8
timings 15464 144 40 29 3 136 6
accel true
rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode
Mode "1024x768"
# D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz
DotClock 64.667
HTimings 1024 1064 1200 1344
VTimings 768 771 777 806
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" # Warning: XFree86 doesn't support accel
EndMode
Now I understand, that the colour bit depth of the Debian console can be and
has to be lower than the bit depth of the x-windowing system.
The mclk value of 95 is the highest one I can use. Values below 75 will
result in line artefaxts in x-windows.
Thanks
befu
