Bug#386028: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx: Characters corrupted when switching to console.

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
Version: 1:1.1.1.3-3

Hi,

I have a voodoo banshee card, and when I switch between X and the
console, which is on a framebuffer, I ussually have 1 character that is
slightly corrupted.  Switching to X again and back to the console might
fix it, it might stay, or it might be an other character that has the
problem.

I ussually only see the the character half, the upper lines are
ussually there, but the lower not.  It's not always the same amount of
lines that I see.

I have no idea what really happens, but I assume that when switching
back to the console, X (or the kernel?) is putting back the font for the
console/framebuffer, and that it doesn't always do it properly.  My
guess would be some race condition, since it's not always the same
character that has the problem.

Note that this is not really a new problem, I used to have this with
xfree86 too, I just never filed a bug about it or really looked at it
before.


Kurt