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Re: Potato: SPARCstation ELC white line on console



On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having hunted high and low to find an answer as to why my ELC is showing a
> white line (the width of one character) on the left side of the console
> screen. Another curious thing is that the linux boot startup logo is
> munched.
>

I have an ELC and an SLC, they both do exactly the same thing with 
SparcLinux. It's probably a bug in the 'bwtwo' kernel framebuffer driver 
(/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/bwtwofb.c if you feel like hacking it :-)

The boot logo (for me) had vertical white lines running through it (from 
memory - it's been up for a while :-)

- Daniel

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