Re: Framebuffer display corruption on 2.6.12

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This looks like a userspace issue, but apparently it only appears after 
> upgrading from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12...
> 
> Some Gentoo users have reported display corruption when using the 
> framebuffer, easily visible in dialog-based applications. Sample 
> screenshot:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=63264
> 
> Although the screenshot shows a framebuffer running on top of gentoo's 
> "framebuffer splash", the same issue exists if you use plain old vesafb 
> with no splash.
> 
> The issue has been reproduced in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.

I can't reproduce it here.  But can you try to reproduce it with vgacon
and with fbcon.

> 
> Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Should I get 
> this reported to the kernel bugzilla?
> 

You may. (Do it under Drivers->Console/Framebuffers) Some prefer bugzilla,
some don't. I don't mind which.

Tony


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