Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:53, Mats Aigner wrote:

> On my iBook2, the ATY R128 framebuffer device litters the screen with 
> spurious characters (often at the end of a long line of text, or in 
> the minibuffer in emacs when doing an I-search, etc) in an 
> unpredictable but reproducible way.
> 
> However, the Open Firmware framebuffer device (i.e. I give the kernel 
> the parameter video=ofonly at boot) works perfectly on the virtual 
> consoles, but then I can't start X.
> 
> If I could put the ATY at /dev/fb0 and the OF at /dev/fb1 I could 
> then choose the right framebuffer depending on the circumstances. Is 
> this possible? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?

Disable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in your kernel config or use a recent kernel
where this bug is fixed.


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