Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 19:16, Derrik Pates wrote: > On 27 Nov 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Disable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in your kernel config or use a recent kernel > > where this bug is fixed. > > I sometimes see this effect, even though I do not have CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE > enabled, on my iBook F

Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Derrik Pates
On 27 Nov 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Disable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in your kernel config or use a recent kernel > where this bug is fixed. I sometimes see this effect, even though I do not have CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE enabled, on my iBook FireWire (also with a Rage M3). I'm running 2.4.16-ben0. I don't

Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Nov 27, Mats Aigner wrote: > 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? No. You will only have multible framebuffers if you have multiple video devices (that is, a multihead system).

Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 27, Mats Aigner wrote: > 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? You could run X to workaround this know aty128fb console bug

Re: iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
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. > > H

iBook2: Screen litter again

2001-11-27 Thread Mats Aigner
Hello! 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.

Re: Screen litter

2001-10-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stuart Lamble wrote: > In debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it. > >There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it > >anyway. > > Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it r

Re: Screen litter

2001-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:29:15AM +1100, Stuart Lamble wrote: > Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it resulted in me getting > a display consisting solely of bullet marks, instead of standard text. I hear that happens if you bring your {Power,i}Book into work with you at Intel. -- G.

Re: Screen litter

2001-10-30 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote: >If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it. >There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it >anyway. Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it resulted in me getting a display consisting solely of b

Re: Screen litter

2001-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 03:13, Mats Aigner wrote: > Hello again, just a couple more questions while I'm at it: > > I have an iBook2, kernel 2.4.13 and woody and I'm not running X. I > get "litter" on the screen, ie characters (or just a pieces of a > characters) appear where there really are no ch

Screen litter

2001-10-29 Thread Mats Aigner
Hello again, just a couple more questions while I'm at it: I have an iBook2, kernel 2.4.13 and woody and I'm not running X. I get "litter" on the screen, ie characters (or just a pieces of a characters) appear where there really are no characters, and I have to clear it away with ^l. I never