On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Stuart Brady wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:52:32AM +0300, Martin-�ric Racine wrote: > [Snip] > > > > 2) all 2.6.x since 2.6.5 > > > > The PA-RISC Tux appears. Everything within the lines it occupies is > > a clean pitch black. Bootup messages start on the last line of the > > penguin, overlaping its legs. Messages up to "Gecko-style soft power > > switch enabled." scroll on below. Messages following that appear on > > the feet of the penguin again and are all printed there, without > > scrolling down. > > > > Once the "INIT: version 2.86" message appears at that location, things > > magically resume a few lines below the powerswitch kernel message, > > starting with the "Setting disc parameters: done." message and scroll > > down, eventually making the penguin scroll off-screen. > > Try it with: > > STI_CONSOLE=y (STI text console) > DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS=<c> (Initial number of console screen columns) > DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS=<r> (Initial number of console screen rows) > > Where <c> is the screen width (in pixels) divided by 8 (E.g. 1024/8=128) > and <r> is the height divided by 16 (E.g. 768/16=48). (These options are > under "Device Drivers" -> "Graphics support" -> "Console display driver > support".) > > I don't know whether you actually need sticon itself, but you need to > choose in order to set the columns/rows. Perhaps that's a bug.
Using 128 and 48 solved it. This being said, it wasn't needed previously. I have no choice but to call that a regression, because it forces the kernel to be built for a specific framebuffer size; there is no way to have a generic kernel that will work for everyone, e.g. with the new Debian Installer, for instance. -- Martin-�ric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
