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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Charles Johnston <cjohnston@networld.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc4 Massive strange corruption with new radeonfb
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:31:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077060699.1078.38.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40329B57.9060901@networld.com>


> Ok, it worked fine with that line commented out.  I can switch vt's, be 
> in X, etc. no problems.

Can you send me the dmesg log still please ?

> The only issue I see is when I do a 'clear' on the vt, it doesn't clear 
> the text, but blanks every nth row of pixels.  Switching vt's and back 
> clears the screen.

Does this happen even without using XFree ? There is a known problem
with clears when switching _from_ XFree... I'm working on a fix.

> There are also a few rows of garbage pixels at the bottom that linger 
> across vt switches.

Yes, same as above afaik



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17 20:08 Linux 2.6.3-rc4 Massive strange corruption with new radeonfb Charles Johnston
2004-02-17 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-17 22:53   ` Charles Johnston
2004-02-17 23:31     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-02-18  0:23       ` Charles Johnston
2004-02-18  0:36         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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