Re: funny framebuffer fonts on PowerBook with radeonfb

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 02:47 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:

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:

I have a similar machine and haven't seen such a problem with it so
far ... does this happen after you load X or already at boot before X
ever kicks in ? Does it happen if you don't load any font (that is for
example boot with init=/bin/sh to prevent any init script to try to load
a font)

Ben.




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