Re: 2.6.7 still garbage upon start

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

On Friday 18 June 2004 06:41, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> modprobing fbcon still paints a white rectangle. Difference to 2.6.6 is
> that this rectangle now fills the entire screen instead of a smaller
> area. As before, text is shown all correctly (painted upon the
> rectangle), and the white rectangle scrolls up just like text and in the
> end vanishes.
>

The white screen is the result of fbdev being initialized before vgacon is
deinitialized.  I can't find a simple solution for this except to disable vgacon
if fbcon is compiled statically.  Currently vgacon is always enabled in X86, so
I use this in drivers/video/console/Kconfig.

config VGA_CONSOLE
	bool "VGA text console" if EMBEDDED || !X86
	depends on !ARCH_ACORN && !ARCH_EBSA110 && !4xx && !8xx && !SPARC32 &&	!SPARC64 && !M68K && FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE != y

> Switching to another VT while in X still leaves you with a blank screen
> and a blinking cursor. If one presses return, the screen contents is
> restored.

You mean switching from X to another VT?  At least you just get a blank screen,
with other drivers, sometimes the machine hangs. 

(I have code I'm planning to send for RFC that will notify the low-level driver if 
switching from KD_GRAPHICS->KD_TEXT and vice versa or if multiple
drivers are mapped to different consoles. However, it seems BenH already has
code for this so I'm holding the submission.  I just can't find BenH's changes in
2.6.7 or -mm.  Hey Ben, where is it?)  

Tony




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