RE: Font endian problem?

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The driver I am using is the generic 'chips' driver.  Sorry, forgot to
put that in my initial email.

Ian
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Aurele La France [mailto:tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 10 February 2005 16:04
To: Ian Jones
Cc: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Font endian problem?

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ian Jones wrote:

> 	I have Xfree86 version 4.4.0 up and running on a PowerPC host
using 
> the LynxOS operating system.

> All appears to be working ok, except that the fonts are being rendered

> incorrectly when using Xterm etc.  The problem looks like the bitmaps 
> that make up the fonts are being split down the middle and then 
> reversed, causing a kind of mirrored effect to happen.

> I'm guessing that this an endian issue somewhere, but I'm not quite 
> sure where to look to solve it.  Does anyone know which source files 
> etc I would need to look at to change the endian-ness and get the 
> fonts displayed correctly?

What driver would this be?

Marc.

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