[Q] Garbage at bottom of console

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:25:54 -0500 (EST)


I've recently installed a new video card (el cheapo Diamond Stealth 3d
2000) and have a weird problem.

(btw, linux 2.1.86,glibc2.0.6,i586,gcc 2.8.0)

In 132x43 (or 132x25), I get a two-pixel line of garbage at the bottom of
the screen. It _seems_ to reflect whats on (about) line 25 of the screen.

00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

It says IRQ 11, but according to /proc/interrupts

CPU0
0: 1481769 XT PIC timer
1: 17144 XT PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT PIC cascade
10: 38685 XT PIC 3c509
13: 1 XT PIC fpu
14: 47132 XT PIC ide0
15: 1866 XT PIC ide1
NMI: 0

No IRQ 11 is shown. I don't know if this has any bearing ....

I poked through the various .c files in the source dealing with low-level
VGA-ish in hopes of finding something tunable to correct this, but didn't
notice anything.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Hm? And if not, where might I go
about to solve it?

Danka!

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simple is elegant mrnick.binary9.net nicholas@binary9.net
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