Re: 2.6.14-mm2

[Andrew Morton]

Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14/2.6.14-mm2/
> >
> 
> Something is broken with nvidia framebuffer. When I try to login on
> tty1 "Password: " doesn't appear. It appear when I switch Alt+F2 to
> tty2 and then back to tty1.
> 

Yup, thanks.  Yesterday Ben reported:

> not 100% sure what's up, but current -git has funny breakage with
> nvidiafb on an iMac G5 I have here. The mode seems correct but the
> console uses one line too much of text.
> 
> That is, the total height of the screen isn't a multiple of the height
> of a line of text. It seems that fbcon is rounding up instead of down,
> thus the "last" line is basically going offscreen (about 2 or 3 pixels
> visible, the rest is offscreen).
> 

Which looks sort-of similar.

And Tony replied:

> What does stty -a say, and fbset -i?
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