Re: [Q] Garbage at bottom of console

Jon Torrez (jon@wwwebservers.com)
Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:36:54 -0600 (CST)


We run SVGATextMode at school, we have run across this with some of the
IBM GX50 model monitors, it happens because SVGATextMode is imporperly
setup. nothing to do with the kernel.

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:

<WWW>I've recently installed a new video card (el cheapo Diamond Stealth 3d
<WWW>2000) and have a weird problem.
<WWW>
<WWW>(btw, linux 2.1.86,glibc2.0.6,i586,gcc 2.8.0)
<WWW>
<WWW>In 132x43 (or 132x25), I get a two-pixel line of garbage at the bottom of
<WWW>the screen. It _seems_ to reflect whats on (about) line 25 of the screen.
<WWW>
<WWW>00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
<WWW> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
<WWW> Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
<WWW>
<WWW>It says IRQ 11, but according to /proc/interrupts
<WWW>
<WWW> CPU0
<WWW> 0: 1481769 XT PIC timer
<WWW> 1: 17144 XT PIC keyboard
<WWW> 2: 0 XT PIC cascade
<WWW> 10: 38685 XT PIC 3c509
<WWW> 13: 1 XT PIC fpu
<WWW> 14: 47132 XT PIC ide0
<WWW> 15: 1866 XT PIC ide1
<WWW>NMI: 0
<WWW>
<WWW>No IRQ 11 is shown. I don't know if this has any bearing ....
<WWW>
<WWW>I poked through the various .c files in the source dealing with low-level
<WWW>VGA-ish in hopes of finding something tunable to correct this, but didn't
<WWW>notice anything.
<WWW>
<WWW>Has anyone seen this problem before? Hm? And if not, where might I go
<WWW>about to solve it?
<WWW>
<WWW>Danka!
<WWW>
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<WWW>
<WWW> simple is elegant mrnick.binary9.net nicholas@binary9.net
<WWW>___________________________________________________________________________
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