Bug#563035: console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14
On 2010-01-15 12:53:52 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 13:40:21 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 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.
I've done some tests. Running "setupcon" solves the problem
(questions 1.1 and 1.2 of the console-setup FAQ should be merged
to make this clear). Couldn't "setupcon" be run at the right time?
For instance, is there a script that is run after one has switched
to a console?
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