Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Hi Manuel,

> I successfully revived the laptop in question, and the strange stripes
> are still there, both in the old kernel from back then and new
> 2.6.24-ethcnhalf one I got today via security upgrades. So yes,
> positive, this error still occurs with more recent kernel versions. Now
> that I have the laptop revived, let me know if you want some tests
> performed.

There have been hardly any upstream changes to aty128fb.c since 2.6.24,
so this bug likely still persists upstream.

Can you try to reproduce this with version 2.6.28-rc6 (you can find
the config to your kernel in /boot/config-*) and report this upstream
at bugzilla.kernel.org?

Cheers,
        Moritz