On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:53, Mats Aigner wrote: > On my iBook2, the ATY R128 framebuffer device litters the screen with > spurious characters (often at the end of a long line of text, or in > the minibuffer in emacs when doing an I-search, etc) in an > unpredictable but reproducible way. > > However, the Open Firmware framebuffer device (i.e. I give the kernel > the parameter video=ofonly at boot) works perfectly on the virtual > consoles, but then I can't start X. > > If I could put the ATY at /dev/fb0 and the OF at /dev/fb1 I could > then choose the right framebuffer depending on the circumstances. Is > this possible? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
Disable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in your kernel config or use a recent kernel where this bug is fixed. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
