2.6.1 on ATI Rage 128 M3: some thin vertical lines show up
Hi folks,
Kernel: plain 2.6.1, booted with "vga=0x318"
Hardware: Dell C600 laptop
VGA: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)
(XFree86 says '"ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c46)')
If I run "make menuconfig" on the frame buffer console, then some character cells (e.g. the top line to the right of "Linux Kernel v2.6.1 Configuration") contain some thin vertical lines in various colors instead of being plain blue.
Switching to another console and back to the menuconfig screen does a clean-up, but new screen output will create the thin vertical lines again.
It seems that only the character cells _without_ printed text contain the thin lines. The same problem comes up with running aptitude instead of menuconfig.
I can't remember having seen this problem with kernel 2.4.22, but please don't count on this. Can anybody reproduce this problem?
Regards
Harri
Quoted 9 lines · Harald Dunkel
Kernel: plain 2.6.1, booted with "vga=0x318"
Hardware: Dell C600 laptop
VGA: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)(XFree86 says '"ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c46)')If I run "make menuconfig" on the frame buffer console, then some character cells (e.g. the top line to the right of "Linux Kernel v2.6.1 Configuration") contain some thin vertical lines in various colors instead of being plain blue.
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I can't remember having seen this problem with kernel 2.4.22, but please don't count on this.
Just to clarify, are you talking about vesafb? I ask, because the rage128 driver included in the kernel does not support flat panels. That's the reason why I started a new driver for my Dell C600, which I haven't ported to 2.6 yet (volunteers are welcome, see
http://www.saftware.de/r128fb/r128fb-20030819.tar.bz2 ;-).
Regards,
Andreas
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Just to clarify, are you talking about vesafb? I ask, because the rage128 driver included in the kernel does not support flat panels. That's the reason why I started a new driver for my Dell C600, which I haven't ported to 2.6 yet (volunteers are welcome, see
http://www.saftware.de/r128fb/r128fb-20030819.tar.bz2 ;-).
Interesting... I'll look at this as soon as I'm done with my current work (in a couple of weeks hopefully). I definitely plan to do some major work on aty128fb so...
Ben.
Quoted 3 lines · Andreas Oberritter
Just to clarify, are you talking about vesafb? I ask, because the rage128 driver included in the kernel does not support flat panels.
Yes, its vesafb. The Rage128 drivers have been compiled as a module, but they are not loaded.
Regards
Harri