Re: Text console corruption
"Per Olofsson" <pelle@dsv.su.se> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 15:58 -0600, Jorge Santos wrote:
>> Well, after a lot of playing arround with fbset, recompiling the
>> kernel, passing the kernel boot options and the like, I haven't fixed
>> this yet, and I intend to file a bug report about it, the question is:
>>
>> against which package should I do it?
>>
>> Suggestions anyone? Should it be the kernel or something else? Do
>> mind that it has nothing to do with X Window, since the problem begins
>> during the bootup process.
>
> I think you're having a problem with hotplug. I have the same
> problem. The problem is that hotplug automatically loads a framebuffer
> driver for your video card, which apparently doesn't work very
> well.
>
> The solution is to add the name of your framebuffer module to
> /etc/hotplug/blacklist. I can also add 'Option "UseFBDev"' to the
> device section in my XF86Config to get it to work, but that might not
> work for you.
>
> There's already a bug filed, #238321. In fact, I joined this list
> today because I intended to ask if anyone else was having this
> problem, as I was told that it was just my hardware/driver that was
> broken.
>
The blacklist bit solved it for me, thanks for the tip, I was getting
really sick of compiling kernels and stuff to try to fix it to no
avail.
Greetings,
Jorge
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