Re: Framebuffer oddness in 2.5.50

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 15:39:39 EST


> Something really odd just happened. I was on console,
> and hit alt-f7, which flipped me back to X.
> There were small blinking parts of the screen, which
> I think was actually the fb cursor, but it was sort of skewed
> across the screen. I could click in windows, but when
> I typed, nothing would appear. I pressed alt-ctrl-f1,
> and got back to the console, where everything I had just
> typed (whilst I thought I was in X) was.
>
> Totally wierd, and try as I might, I can't reproduce it at will.
>
> Nvidia graphic card (no binary crap loaded), vesafb.

That is totally weird. Is with my latest patches for the standard 2.5.50 tree
or just a vanilla tree?

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