Console corruption with newport & XFree86

Console corruption with newport & XFree86

[Guido Guenther]

Hi,
to get a better idea with which versions of the newport the console
corruption happens I'd like to ask everybody with a newport to send me:
- The version numbers of the different chips on the newport(as printed
  by the kernel - dmesg)
- if it is the 8bpp or 24bpp version
- the version number of XFree86 with which console corruption[1] happens(if
  any)
- the version number of XFree86 with which *no* console corruption happens(if
  any)
So even if everything is fine for you, please drop me a short notice.
Please do this in private mail, since I don't want to pollute this ml
with(for other people) uninteresting stuff.
Thanks,
 -- Guido

[1] completely black console with only a blinking cursor

Re: Console corruption with newport & XFree86

[Greg MATTHEWS]

under what circumstances does corruption take place on the relevant newport?

> Hi,
> to get a better idea with which versions of the newport the console
> corruption happens I'd like to ask everybody with a newport to send me:
> - The version numbers of the different chips on the newport(as printed
>   by the kernel - dmesg)
> - if it is the 8bpp or 24bpp version
> - the version number of XFree86 with which console corruption[1] happens(if
>   any)
> - the version number of XFree86 with which *no* console corruption happens(if
>   any)
> So even if everything is fine for you, please drop me a short notice.
> Please do this in private mail, since I don't want to pollute this ml
> with(for other people) uninteresting stuff.
> Thanks,
>  -- Guido
> 
> [1] completely black console with only a blinking cursor
> 
> 
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Re: Console corruption with newport & XFree86

[Ladislav Michl]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:

> under what circumstances does corruption take place on the relevant newport?

1) boot kernel with newport_con included
2) start xserver
3) switch back to VT
   - everything okay? happy you...
   - do you see blank screen and only cursor is visible? (typical
     case). Report it to Guido.

laďa

Re: Console corruption with newport & XFree86

[Guido Guenther]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:34:19AM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> under what circumstances does corruption take place on the relevant newport?
You start X and switch back to the console(CTRL-ALT-F1) and your screen
becomes completely black - switching back to X works fine though. It's
actually the reading of the old colormap data on server *startup* that
fails on these boards.
 -- Guido