On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 03:13, Mats Aigner wrote: > Hello again, just a couple more questions while I'm at it: > > I have an iBook2, kernel 2.4.13 and woody and I'm not running X. I > get "litter" on the screen, ie characters (or just a pieces of a > characters) appear where there really are no characters, and I have > to clear it away with ^l. > > I never had this problem with 2.2.19 and potato. Can this be fixed? > Has it something to do with the framebuffer support? (I compiled the > kernel with CONFIG_FB_OF=y and CONFIG_FB_ATY128=y.) > > Also, when I give the "snooze" command, the "computer" goes to sleep > all right, but the screen starts displaying a fast-changing pattern > of mostly vertical lines. When I wake it up, the lines go away but a > (rather beautiful) pattern of random pixels covers the screen. It > goes away with ^l, but I'm mystified and want to know what is > happening!
If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it. There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it anyway. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
