funny framebuffer fonts on PowerBook with radeonfb
From: Herbert Poetzl <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-27 00:47:43
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Hey Ben! 2.6.16 and 2.6.15-something show a funny behaviour when using the radeonfb driver (for text mode), they kind of twist and break the fonts in various places some characters or parts seem to be mirrored like '[' becoming ']' but not on character boundary but more on N pixels, colors seem to be correct for the characters, and sometimes the font is perfectly fine for larger runs, e.g. I can read the logon prompt fine, but everything I type is garbled ... just for an example, when I type 'echo "Test"' then all characters are mirrored and cut off on the right side but the locations are as shown above, on enter the T is only a few pixels wide, but the est part is written perfectly fine ... this is a new behaviour and going back to 2.6.13.3 doesn't show this ... if there is some testing I can do for you, or when you need more info, please let me know. here a few details for the machine: TIA, Herbert processor : 0 cpu : 7450, altivec supported clock : 667.000000MHz revision : 0.1 (pvr 8000 0201) bogomips : 66.56 timebase : 33290001 machine : PowerBook3,3 motherboard : PowerBook3,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 72 (PowerBook Titanium II) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 256K unified pmac-generation: NewWorld 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 255 (2000ns min), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48 Region 0: Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at f0000400 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=48 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087) radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): Invalid ROM signature 8080 should be 0xaa55 radeonfb: Retrieved PLL infos from Open Firmware radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=166.00 Mhz, System=166.00 MHz radeonfb: PLL min 12000 max 35000 radeonfb: Monitor 1 type LCD found radeonfb: EDID probed radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found radeonfb: Using Firmware dividers 0x0001003a from PPLL 0 radeonfb: Dynamic Clock Power Management enabled Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 164x54 Registered "ati" backlight controller,level: 15/15 radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): ATI Radeon LY