On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:47, 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 saw this on an PC with a Radeon 7000/VE that was slowly going bad. I'd 
recommend you run a full diagnostic on the video system memory (if possible) 
and look for errors there. If it isn't the memory (which was the problem on 
my Radeon) then the GPU itself might be going bad.

ShadowWolf