Re: [G5] Mirrored characters on the console [was Re: Problem compiling SMU driver]
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 18:23 +0100, Francois wrote:
> > Hrm... weird... could either be some problem with userland trying to
> > change the console font, or maybe some of the old problems with VGA
> > console vs. fbdev ... was your build really clean ? If you backup
> > your .config, do make distclean, restore .config, make oldconfig, and
> > rebuild, does it fix the problem ?
>
> I've got rid of the problem by switching CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA off. I have
> kept CONFIG_FB_RIVA in, and it seems to work fine now (but I haven't
> been as far as the X server configuration yet).
That is weird, CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA should work fine. You should make sure
you tell the linux-fbdev mailing list about your problem.
> Francois
>
> On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 03:00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > The problem is probably not much to solve, since characters are
> > > displayed properly in the first few seconds of the boot *until* the Tux
> > > logo kicks in (the logo is then fine, but the characters are swapped).
> > > Strangely enough too, the first pass of the Debian installer (the one
> > > installing the base system, before the first reboot) managed to display
> > > characters properly (I'm using the kernel I've compiled -- 2.6.12-r2 --
> > > since the one d-i picks by default -- 2.6.8-power4 I think -- hangs
> > > after the disk mount).
> > >
> > > Has anybody any idea of which option I could turn off in my kernel
> > > config?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help!
> >
> > Hrm... weird... could either be some problem with userland trying to
> > change the console font, or maybe some of the old problems with VGA
> > console vs. fbdev ... was your build really clean ? If you backup
> > your .config, do make distclean, restore .config, make oldconfig, and
> > rebuild, does it fix the problem ?
> >
> > If not, try removing VGA console support
> >
> > Ben.
>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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