Re: Radeon FB slightly broken in 2.6.8.x

From: Clemens Schwaighofer
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 19:19:12 EST


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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
| On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:05, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
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|>Hi,
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|>I am a forced owner of a Radeon 7500 in my Sony Laptop. with 2.6.7 the
|>framebuffer works perfectly fine, but with 2.6.8.x I get strange
|>colerful ascii garbage on the bottom of the screen during booten and
|>then good 10 or more lines are sort of "hidden" outside of the screen.
|>It seems like the screen is not positioned to the end of the output.
|>Kinda strange, cause I first thought it stopped loading exim4 for some
|>reason and not until after I pressed enter a lot I saw that I had a
|>login screen just very far outside of my visual area :)
|>
|>Config attached, but it hasn't chagned to 2.6.7 in the FB area.
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| Does it get back to normal at the end of boot ?

The "colorful" ascii disappear as they are only ~10 lines and they
scroll up. But even after login, the actual cursor is ~10-15 lines
outside of the visible area.

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