Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote:
> 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.
Merged in SVN for next kernel point update.
Cheers,
Moritz
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