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.