Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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