Screen corruption in 2.4.18
Quoted 9 lines · Chris Rankin
I have an i840 motherboard with dual 733 MHz PIIIs and a Matrox G400 MAX, and I am also seeing console corruption with 2.4.18. The difference with me is that I *only* see it when I am using xine (CVS) and the SyncFB video plugin, possibly the Xv video plugin sometimes too. When I kill xine, the regular multicoloured rectangle disappears from the console.
Whatever is causing this console corruption, it doesn't seem to be a VIA bug (in my case, anyway).
It is something completely different - your color rectangle is xine (or Xv) still painting to framebuffer although X are no longer visible. If you are using matroxfb, you should see either single color rectangle (in overlay mode) or picture from xine (in direct paint mode). With vgacon you'll see single color areas of strange stable characters in overlay mode, and multicolored areas of strange changing characters in non-overlay mode.
VIA corruption exists without X, and appears just immediately, during kernel boot sequence.
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]
Quoted 6 lines · --- Petr Vandrovec
On 2 Apr 02 at 22:43, Chris Rankin wrote:
It is something completely different - your color rectangle is xine (or Xv)
still painting to framebuffer although X are no longer visible. If
you are using matroxfb, you should see either single
Quoted 8 lines
color rectangle
(in overlay mode) or picture from xine (in direct
paint mode). With
vgacon you'll see single color areas of strange
stable characters in overlay
mode, and multicolored areas of strange changing
characters in non-overlay
mode.
OK, but for the record, I'm not using a framebuffer. My console is text-mode.
Chris
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