> On ATI hardware, the screen stays blank while firmware is loaded - on > my Kaveri that takes a lot longer than on my old R600 and my past R200 > (but then it loads a lot more firmware).
Ah, that's what it is, firmware. This is a Nvidia GeForce 6200. > Look at dmesg to see what size of framebuffer it has switched to. It > sounds as if you perhaps have one extra character of line width in the > framebuffer. Undoubtedly, but it's hard to figure something returning "81", or that the kernel initialization uses "79". More likely an off by one subtraction error somewhere. Grrrrr Ummmmmm, I've seen that different panels, ostensibly the same size, have different numbers of pixels. Maybe it IS possible division by 80 and roundoff comes up different. Grrrrr > I normally load a console font, and that can change the screen size. > So, again on my Kaveri, the '[OK]' messages do not all line up. I haven't messed with fonts (yet). Are you off consistently by one to the right after udev? > Does it matter ? My screens get cleared when I login, so the variable > layout is not important to me. I've noticed login clears the screen in the last couple versions. I'd rather not have something that appears to be a glitch obvious during boot, it may diminish confidence. > If it does matter to you, I suppose you could try adding a series of > your own "debug" bootscripts to report information from stty or > whatever, and run them before and after the shift. Perhaps write to a > logfile. Yeah, been thinking along those lines myself. Just thought I'd ask... Thanks. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
