Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:06:22 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: funny framebuffer fonts on PowerBook with radeonfb |
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:26:38PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:37 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
thanks for the quick response, Tony's patch fixed the issue for me, the console fonts are fine again.
> > after that, the screen goes white for half a second > > and becomes black with a large terminal font on it > > (the one I get without framebuffer, I think), the > > text there is printed undistorted ... shortly after > > that, I get a flash, and the mode switches to a much > > smaller font (the final framebuffer font) and the > > kernel messages written there are already distorted. > > half a second later (or less) the penguin appears at > > the top area (undistorted), when the bootup is done > > I get the following prompt (which again is okay) > > > > bash-2.05b# > > > > typing anything there is distorted again ... > > Hrm... this is a a pristine 2.6.16 without any patch applied?
yep!
> Also, what video chip revision do you have exactly? > (lspci will tell you)
it did and it should have told you too :) (it's in the original mail)
> > pressing enter several times leaves 'copies' of > > the caracters on the screen, forming vertical bars > > the prompt (bash) is now always fine, the copy one > > line above (as all the others) is distorted ... > > > > note, the bootup is not much different with older > > kernels, except for the strange distortions ... > > > > attached my kernel configuration, just in case > > it is related ... > > # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y > # CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set > CONFIG_FONTS=y > # CONFIG_FONT_8x8 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_8x16 is not set > CONFIG_FONT_6x11=y > CONFIG_FONT_7x14=y > # CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set > # CONFIG_FONT_10x18 is not set > > Interesting... I suspect there is an endian bug in the new > font code that hits odd sized fonts (or non-multiple-of-8 > fonts). Can you try enabling 8x8 and 8x16 instead of 6x11 > and 7x14 fonts and tell me if those work ?
yep, 8x16 font works as it seems ...
> Tony: If my suspition is confirmed, I think that's your call :)
best, Herbert
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