Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: Weird Xorg stretching (setfont) | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 00:03:40 +0200 |
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Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dave Airlie wrote:
>> wierd got any fglrx or anything installed on you're system.. the >> radeon drm hasn't seen any changes that should affect this sorta >> thing, do you run radeonfb or vesafb? > > Just in case you didn't see my reply I'm not an fglrx user and I don't run > radeonfb or vesafb. > > After testing far too many kernels it turns out that this is not a > conventional regression. During startup openSUSE runs the following > command: > > /bin/setfont -C /dev/tty1 lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial > > in /etc/init.d/kbd > > Now on the openSUSE provided 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP kernel if X has > started and your run that command (e.g. > chvt 7; sleep 5s && /bin/setfont -C /dev/tty1 lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial > ) the command will fail with error output similar to the following: > setfont: putfont: 256,8x16: failed: -1 > putfont: KDFONTOP: Invalid Argument > > If you are using a stock kernel (e.g. 2.6.24/2.6.25 etc) the command will > not fail and will instead corrupt X causing the lower part of the screen to > be drawn using the same line (creating a stretch/mirror effect).
I see a similar effect on my "GeForce2 MX/MX 400" using the "nv" driver. The difference is: I see both the screen corruption and (from ssh): be10:/etc/init.d # ./kbd start Loading keymap qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz done Keyboard: Typematic Rate set to 30.0 cps (delay = 250 ms) done Loading compose table latin1.add done Stop Unicode mode kbd_mode not called for /dev/pts/1 done Loading console font lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial (K putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument failed be10:/etc/init.d #
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