Re: radeonfb bug: text ends up scrolling in the middle of tux.

From: Ingo Saitz (Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 07:24:49 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:33:29PM -0500, Dan Merillat wrote:
> Ok, I've poked around but I can't find a penguin or tux bitmap to
> figure out why scrolling is so broken. I've got to login blind and type
> reset to get the console back. Needless to say, no kernel messages
> are readable after the mode-switch (they all overwrite themselves on
> a single line)

Yes, I encontered the same. See my previous message for a patch:

Message-ID: <20011118163244.A1100@pinguin.subspace.exe>
Subject: Debugging (?) output in 2.4.14 breaks radeon framebuffer

The offending code seems to have entered the kernel at 2.4.14,
2.4.13 was OK on my box.

    Ingo

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