Re: Screen litter
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 03:13, Mats Aigner wrote:
> Hello again, just a couple more questions while I'm at it:
>
> I have an iBook2, kernel 2.4.13 and woody and I'm not running X. I
> get "litter" on the screen, ie characters (or just a pieces of a
> characters) appear where there really are no characters, and I have
> to clear it away with ^l.
>
> I never had this problem with 2.2.19 and potato. Can this be fixed?
> Has it something to do with the framebuffer support? (I compiled the
> kernel with CONFIG_FB_OF=y and CONFIG_FB_ATY128=y.)
>
> Also, when I give the "snooze" command, the "computer" goes to sleep
> all right, but the screen starts displaying a fast-changing pattern
> of mostly vertical lines. When I wake it up, the lines go away but a
> (rather beautiful) pattern of random pixels covers the screen. It
> goes away with ^l, but I'm mystified and want to know what is
> happening!
If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it.
There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it
anyway.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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