Framebuffer display corruption on 2.6.12
Hi,
This looks like a userspace issue, but apparently it only appears after upgrading from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12...
Some Gentoo users have reported display corruption when using the framebuffer, easily visible in dialog-based applications. Sample screenshot:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=63264
Although the screenshot shows a framebuffer running on top of gentoo's "framebuffer splash", the same issue exists if you use plain old vesafb with no splash.
The issue has been reproduced in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.
Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Should I get this reported to the kernel bugzilla?
The original bug URL:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98804
Thanks,
Daniel
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Quoted 9 lines · Daniel Drake
Hi,
This looks like a userspace issue, but apparently it only appears after upgrading from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12...
Some Gentoo users have reported display corruption when using the framebuffer, easily visible in dialog-based applications. Sample screenshot:
I got similar looking corruption when I switched to unicode. Recompiling ncurses and slang with USE=unicode fixed it. alsamixer and menuconfig are still corrupted in the console but work fine under gnome-terminal whereas mc and ufed work in both environments. A case of linking with libncurses instead of libncursesw I guess...
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Quoted 11 lines · Daniel Drake
Hi,
This looks like a userspace issue, but apparently it only appears after upgrading from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12...
Some Gentoo users have reported display corruption when using the framebuffer, easily visible in dialog-based applications. Sample screenshot:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=63264
Although the screenshot shows a framebuffer running on top of gentoo's "framebuffer splash", the same issue exists if you use plain old vesafb with no splash.
The issue has been reproduced in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.
I can't reproduce it here. But can you try to reproduce it with vgacon and with fbcon.
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Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Should I get this reported to the kernel bugzilla?
You may. (Do it under Drivers->Console/Framebuffers) Some prefer bugzilla, some don't. I don't mind which.
Tony
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Quoted 3 lines · Daniel Drake
Some Gentoo users have reported display corruption when using the framebuffer, easily visible in dialog-based applications. Sample screenshot:
This appears to be a userspace issue after all, relating to unicode settings. Sorry for the noise.
Daniel
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