From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Console rotation problems Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:45:50 +1100 Message-ID: <1132793150.26560.357.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: , Linux Kernel list Hi Antonio ! I decided to give a quick test to console rotation on my g5 (radeonfb) and couldn't get it to work. When I tried echo'ing something in con_rotate, something very strange happened: pogo:/sys/class/graphics/fb0# echo "1" >con_rotate benh@pogo:~$ As you can see, it looks like I pressed ctrl-D (which I didn't do) and thus exited my shell session. Thus my shell session got killed some way. Verified it twice. Also the console stopped displaying anything (that is,whatever was displayed was still there but the cursor didn't blink anymore and no new stuff got displayed). When I then tried to echo "0" back there, it just hung in the kernel (probably on a semaphore, I could still use the box for a little while before it completely locked up). Ben.