Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:09:50 +0200
Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller
> wrote:
> > after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch
> > of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in
> > question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports
> > on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have
> > caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26
> > kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour.
> >
> > I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the
> > machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested,
> > please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I
> > haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks.
> >
> > Cheers, and thanks for the patience,
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fbb7cadd062baf299fd8b26a80ea99da0c3fe01
> matches the description of your problem or is your hardware from a
> different type? If appyling the patch on top of the 2.6.26 kernel
> fixes the problem for you, we can consider it for a point update.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
Hi Moritz,
I applied the patch you mentioned above to a standard 2.6.26 kernel
with debian patches, rebuilt, and it fixes the problems for me.
I have no strong feelings concerning your point update suggestion. The
patch does not seem to create much trouble in kernel mainline, or it
would have been reverted already. (It was in at least in 2.6.28 which I
failed to build correctly for some reason, and it's still in in 2.6.30.)
So I think that including it should not harm anyone, but it may
potentially fix things for PowerMac/PowerBook users who still sometimes
use the text console. Maybe including the patch with the next round of
security updates to the kernel in lenny would be the easiest way for you
to go.
Thanks again for you help.
Cheers,
Manuel
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