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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.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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