Re: framebuffer broken on 712 using kernel >> 2.6.4
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:52:32AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> [Snip]
> >
> > 2) all 2.6.x since 2.6.5
> >
> > The PA-RISC Tux appears. Everything within the lines it occupies is
> > a clean pitch black. Bootup messages start on the last line of the
> > penguin, overlaping its legs. Messages up to "Gecko-style soft power
> > switch enabled." scroll on below. Messages following that appear on
> > the feet of the penguin again and are all printed there, without
> > scrolling down.
> >
> > Once the "INIT: version 2.86" message appears at that location, things
> > magically resume a few lines below the powerswitch kernel message,
> > starting with the "Setting disc parameters: done." message and scroll
> > down, eventually making the penguin scroll off-screen.
>
> Try it with:
>
> STI_CONSOLE=y (STI text console)
> DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS=<c> (Initial number of console screen columns)
> DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS=<r> (Initial number of console screen rows)
>
> Where <c> is the screen width (in pixels) divided by 8 (E.g. 1024/8=128)
> and <r> is the height divided by 16 (E.g. 768/16=48). (These options are
> under "Device Drivers" -> "Graphics support" -> "Console display driver
> support".)
>
> I don't know whether you actually need sticon itself, but you need to
> choose in order to set the columns/rows. Perhaps that's a bug.
Using 128 and 48 solved it. This being said, it wasn't needed previously. I
have no choice but to call that a regression, because it forces the kernel to be
built for a specific framebuffer size; there is no way to have a generic kernel
that will work for everyone, e.g. with the new Debian Installer, for instance.
--
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
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