Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Hesse <> | Subject | Re: FB: vesafb garbled after using X11 with nv driver | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:31:00 +0100 |
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On Thursday 11 November 2004 22:55, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > I use the nv driver in XFree and the vesafb for the framebuffer console. > vesafb works fine, I get the bootlogo and all during boot. > > Once X11 starts up and I want to switch back to the framebuffer > console using CTRL-ALT-F1, the framebuffer is garbled. The screen is > flickering, as if the vertical synchronisation is lost. Colors seem to > be OK, I get grey garbage on black background. > > Switching back to X11 using ALT-F7 works OK, the X11 screen looks fine. > > I made two screenshots to illuminate what I'm seeing: > http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/bugreport/dsc02089.jpg > http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/bugreport/dsc02090.jpg > (watch out, high resolution) > > It's not entirely clear if it's an issue of the nv driver or the vesafb > in the kernel.
I have a similar problem. With open source nv and vesafb the virtual terminal looks like this if I switch back to the framebuffer:
http://linux.eworm.net/nv_offset.jpg
Everything is moved to the left, the right area is repeated some time and fills the rest of the screen.
As binary nvidia module works without this problem I support it's a problem of nv...
-- Christian Hesse
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