hi.. also seen on strongarm riscpc.. at least its not only me..
I've 1Mb of vram AFAIK
Any thoughts?
John
On Wed, 31 Mar, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> On 2.2.3-rmk1 (and every other 2.2 kernel i've tried) I find that
> 1 character wide white vertical bars inserted between each character,
> resulting in each row of pixels wrapping around and half the display
> falling off the bottom of the screen.
>
> That is, each logical line of pixels is displayed like :
>
> 0*1*2*3*4*
> 5*6*7*8*9*
>
> instead of
>
> 0123456789
>
> where * is solid white, and each character represents one character length
> of pixels. Tux is the correct colour.
>
> Kernel messages are as follows:
>
> Linux version 2.2.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60
> Debian 2.1 (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #2 Mon Mar 29 03:22:52 PST 1999
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
> Calibrating delay loop... 26.52 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 18592k/19M available (452k code, 20k reserved, 376k data, 16k init)
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> Probing expansion cards: (does not imply support)
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Acornfb: 1024kB VRAM, VIDC20, using 640x480, 31.468kHz, 59Hz
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x60
> PS/2 keyboard driver v1.00
> Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq 10) is a 16550A
> VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> don't worry about that panic, and the resolutions are correct.
>
> This system has ARM610 processor, 16 4Mbytes DRAM (not 19M), 1MByte VRAM
> and RISC OS 3.7.
>
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