Re: [radeonfb]: unclean backward scrolling

[Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>]

Antonio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the radeonfb driver with a radeon 7000 with the frambuffer
> at 1280x1024 on a i386 system, with a 2.6.16.17 kernel. At boot time,
> if I stop the messages with CTRL+s and try look the previous messages
> with CTRL+PagUp (backward scrolling) the screen become unreadable. In
> fact some lengthier lines are not erased scrolling backward and some
> random characters a overwritten instead. So it's very difficult to
> read the messages.
> 
> I don't have such problem with the frambuffer at 1024x768.
> 
> All the previous kernels I've tried have this problem (at least up to 
> 2.6.15).
> 
> If someone can look at this issue I can provide further information.

I have probably the same problem - but with vesafb on my notebook 
(800x600). When I scroll back/forward or run mc and then exit, it fixes 
itself. The problem was probably always there (in 2.6.x - don't know 
about older versions).

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Ondrej Zary