> I really like 2.1 series, it is fast, efficient and
> definitely best operating system for PC.
> Thank you very much for your work, linux developers.
>
> I want to report a problems I see in recent kernels.
> These are related to fb. BTW, I have 486 with
> old mach-8 vga card. FB is not configured yet.
> In 107 I noticed, as many did, that Shift-PageUp etc
> did not worked and attempt to change text mode (using
> SVGAtext) gave me garbled screen.
> In 108 and 109 on all consoles I see only upper part
> of the buffer whatever I do. For example, on the
> boot up console I see BIOS boot up message always.
> I hit return, screen blinks and shows same message
> again. It looks like scrolling up is in effect always!
> In X it is a bit better, but still applications I tried
> have problems. For example, in pico cursor is always in
> lower left corner and I was not able to move it.
(1) Do you use the bootup video mode switcher?
(2) Can you test patch ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/mj/linux-patches/l-con90.gz
against .109?
(3) Do you use vga console or vga frame buffer?
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Linux hackers are funny people -- they count the time in patchlevels."- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html