Re: buggy vesa framebuffer.
Kent Nyberg wrote:
>
> I was going to try LPP today so i patched the 2.2.18 kernel against that
> and it worked perfect.
> I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo
> to:
>
> vga=0x301
> append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"
>
> It workes perfectly, the logo shows when i boot as it should do.
> But when i for exempel, do an 'ls' in a dir with lots of things in it..
> then
> the framebuffer gets buggish.. (dont know how to write buggy in that form.)
> Well, you know what i meen..!
>
> At first.. ls prints out the things as it should.. but when the consol
> starts to scroll, then its only the bottom of the screen that scrolls.
> The top of the screen dont scroll at all.
>
> I have had this problem before, and not just with the card (TNT2) i
> have now. The i740 i had before did the same thing in vesa framebuffer.
>
> Do any one know how to fix this?
> I realy like the lpp logo on startup, so i would like to have this
> fixed soon.
>
Hi
I've had the same problem a wile ago with a 2.2.x kernel(I think it was
2.2.12).
I've solved it by installing fbset and making a small script and calling
it from .bashrc.I was setting the resolution at 800x600 and that worked.
I had to call it from .bashrc since it was the only way I could get it
to work after login in a vt.(there may be other ways..this one worked).
I'm not using anymore the fb so don't know how it works now.
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