From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: radeonfb: corrupted screen on bootup Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:08:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44A3ECE0.10104@tmr.com> References: <200606282118.27750.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200606282118.27750.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a weird error with my PowerBook G4, which > has a radeon card. I am using radeonfb. I had a similar problem, and solved it by using the "wrong" (aty128fb) module which makes me happy. Booted working 5-6 times now, which is a few weeks since I run for long periods. > After bootup, the screen sometimes looks like it is melting. > I made a video to show you what is going on: > http://bu3sch.de/misc/after_boot.avi (6.1 MB) > > It does only happen sometimes. I could not find > a way to reproduce it. > If I start X after boot with a melting screen, X is also > melting: > http://bu3sch.de/misc/after_x_switch.avi (6.6 MB) > > But here comes the interresting part: > If I switch back into the console, the screen becomes > normal again and I can continue to work as usual. > > I am suspecting some initialization routine bug. > It never happened when booting into OSX. > > In X I use the "radeon" driver. -- Bill Davidsen Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.