On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > Well what I've found seems to help is to execute: > > fbset -a -accel false
Thanks, Allan, this has been annoying me for a long time. I think I'll add it in a little script in /etc/rc2.d/ . > This (to my understanding) disables hardware framebuffer acceleration. > This has stopped the corrupted characters on my consoles. Is there any > way to do this with boot args? > > Also I tried to set my keyboard repeat rate using kbdrate and froze the > system. Is that known to be broken on powerpc? The following was logged: > > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: NIP: C00911A0 XER: 00000000 LR: C0039D7C > SP:C1277F20 REGS: c1277e70 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: P > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: MSR: 00089030 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR:11 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: TASK = c1276000[545] 'kbdrate' Last syscall:3 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: last math c1276000 last altivec 00000000 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: GPR00: 00000000 C1277F20 C1276000 7FFFFAC8 > 7FFFFAC8 00000000 C1BA87E0 00000000 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: GPR08: 00000064 FD6FD064 FD6FD000 FFFFFFFF > 4800000C 10019404 00000000 00000000 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00009032 01277F40 00000000 C0004518 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: GPR24: C0004280 10001108 00000000 7FFFFC4F > 7FFFFAC8 FFFFFFEA C1BA87C0 00000001 > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: Call backtrace: > Jan 27 14:28:10 garp kernel: C0039B60 C00042DC 10000BD4 0FE6CC30 00000000 > > Allan > > -- > "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." -- Chaucer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
