Bug#563035: console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 13:40:21 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2010-01-15 11:57:15 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:28:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >
> > > On 2010-01-15 12:24:24 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > > > I suppose this means you are using xserver-xorg-video-nv (not the
> > > > non-free driver by nvidia).
> > >
> > > No, I'm using the non-free driver by Nvidia (the free driver is
> > > unfortunately unusable on this machine).
> >
> > Then I guess you'll have to contact nvidia for support.
>
> I'm wondering: what does the X driver have to do with a console
> problem? Shouldn't the console code do this by itself?
>
> Also, I'm not sure whether the problem is related, but the
> console-setup FAQ says:
>
> And sometimes the console setup is never remembered. In this case
> you will have to use framebuffer (try "modprobe vga16fb"). Another
> uption is to to use the "setupcon" utility whenever you need to
> restore the console setup and hope that the problem will be fixed
> in some future version of X Window. You may want to send a bug
> report to the X developers.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> But is it dependent on the X driver or not?
>
nvidia ships an X driver, a kernel driver and a libGL. While the last
one is probably not the culprit, any of the first two can mess up the
video state.
Cheers,
Julien
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