Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: funny framebuffer fonts on PowerBook with radeonfb | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:17:21 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 02:47 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > Hey Ben! > > 2.6.16 and 2.6.15-something show a funny behaviour > when using the radeonfb driver (for text mode), they > kind of twist and break the fonts in various places > some characters or parts seem to be mirrored like > '[' becoming ']' but not on character boundary but > more on N pixels, colors seem to be correct for the > characters, and sometimes the font is perfectly fine > for larger runs, e.g. I can read the logon prompt > fine, but everything I type is garbled ... > > just for an example, when I type 'echo "Test"' then > all characters are mirrored and cut off on the right > side but the locations are as shown above, on enter > the T is only a few pixels wide, but the est part is > written perfectly fine ... this is a new behaviour > and going back to 2.6.13.3 doesn't show this ... > > if there is some testing I can do for you, or when > you need more info, please let me know. here a few > details for the machine:
I have a similar machine and haven't seen such a problem with it so far ... does this happen after you load X or already at boot before X ever kicks in ? Does it happen if you don't load any font (that is for example boot with init=/bin/sh to prevent any init script to try to load a font)
Ben.
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