Re: Console weirdness

Paweł Gołaszewski
2003-03-09T12:18:57Z

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Siim Vahtre wrote:
> > But still, switching back from X to console corrupts the display.
> > Switching back is fine though using the fbdev.diff patch. Without
> > switching back and force works fine, except that the last line isn't
> > properly redrawn (rivafb).
> I am using rivafb with 2.5.64-bk2 kernel and with latest fbdev patches
> and have following (minor) problems:

2.5.64 with latest fbdev patches.

> * switching to X and back ruins the colours totally. Soulution is to
> fbset back to default mode. (I've even made hotkey for that ;-) )
>
> * changing modes(to other than 640x480) will change the resolution but
> not the 'console window' itself. That is - I have 640x480 window on the
> corner for text console but actually 800x600 resolution. (Maybe it is a
> feature? How to get it full-screened, anyway?)
>
> * changing modes on one tty (even though -a was specified with fbset)
> will not change modes on other ttys. When switching ttys with different
> resolution, the screen blanks and I again have to use my hotkey to fbset
> back to default resolution.

I have the same problems on my tdfx (Voodoo3).

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