Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 with frame buffer problems? | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:43:34 -0500 |
| |
On Monday 29 December 2003 04:17, Andreas Theofilu wrote: >Hi to all, > >Since kernel 2.6.0 I have a strange behavior of the screen in text > modus as well as in graphic modus. If I scroll in plain old text > modus for example within VI, some letters are misplaced and text on > the screen became more and more unreadable. A ^L, that redraws the > screen, helps and going a whole page down or up is also no problem. > >The same kind of problem occures in graphic modus. There, pixels are >misplaced what makes the screen not only ugly but sometimes also >unreadable, beside that this is really annoying. Because I > encountered this in graphic modus first, I thought it was because > of XFree86 4.3.0. But now, after searching the net and asking > people I'm almost surely that this belongs to the kernel. I tried > without frame buffer and tried different settings, but nothing > changed. > >I found out, that the problem with the graphic appeard first with > kernel 2.4.21. In the first place it was only a sometimes funny > looking cursor (mouse pointer?) that was gone after switching to > software cursor. In kernel 2.4.22 random pxiels appeared and in > 2.4.23 more random pixel appeared. In kernel 2.6.0 the problem is > now also with text modus. > >Although I'm a programer, I'm not a kernel hacker and have really no > idea where to start to look for this. Any hints where to look or > patches are welcome. > >My hardware: >Graphics card: Radeon 7000 (known as Radeon VE QY) >Motherboard : MSI KT4V >Chipset : KT400 >RAM : 512Mb >CPU : AMD 2800+ > >My .config is attached. # Graphics support # CONFIG_FB=y # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m # CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set # CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
Way too many frame buffers enabled. Pick the one that works with your card and disable the vesa. You may have to say y to the usual fonts too.
-- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |