Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:41:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: 109pre2 video problem with X |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Meelis Roos wrote: > CS> Yep. I can trigger my screen shift by doing anything that generates a > CS> kernel message in the syslog. Choice of window manager seems irrelevant. > CS> My current favourite example is mdir a: with no disk in the drive. > > CS> Reproducible on demand if anyone has any bright ideas for me to try out to > CS> fix it ... > > Yes, that seems to be it. Disabling console support on virtual terminal > makes the shift go away.
The problem is that console output to the screen is not disabled when the console is in graphics mode (vc_mode != KD_TEXT). On a graphical console this doesn't matter because the kernel knows how to print text to it. With vgacon or vgafb things may go wrong.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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