Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 02:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: > Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: > >> i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel > >> version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, > >> both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. > > > > Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? > > Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been > pretty ill. > That's okay. > i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that > only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge > PCI vidcard. > > Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again, > but, just to be complete i include the requested info: > > > Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? > > stty -a > > speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0; Yes, you have an 80x34 screen (normal VGA is 80x25). I have received several reports about this problem (if the kernel boots with an initial screen which is not 80x25 and the init scripts attempts to set an 8x16 font, the user gets a display that does not fit the screen). Your problem though is probably unrelated. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 02:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been pretty ill. That's okay. i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge PCI vidcard. Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again, but, just to be complete i include the requested info: Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0; Yes, you have an 80x34 screen (normal VGA is 80x25). I have received several reports about this problem (if the kernel boots with an initial screen which is not 80x25 and the init scripts attempts to set an 8x16 font, the user gets a display that does not fit the screen). Your problem though is probably unrelated. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been pretty ill. i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge PCI vidcard. Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again, but, just to be complete i include the requested info: > Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ; eol2 = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon -iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke --- dmesg Linux version 2.6.23-rc6sophia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.2.0) #1 SMP Fri Sep 14 12:08:46 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f400 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7fee (usable) BIOS-e820: 7fee - 7fee3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 7fee3000 - 7fef (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7fef - 7ff0 (reserved) BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved) 1150MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f3ef0 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524000) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 229376 HighMem229376 -> 524000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0:0 -> 524000 On node 0 totalpages: 524000 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 2301 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 292323 pages, LIFO batch:31 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP 000F7CF0, 0014 (r0 RD580 ) ACPI: RSDT 7FEE3040, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: FACP 7FEE30C0, 0074 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: DSDT 7FEE3180, 4C56 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 10E) ACPI: FACS 7FEE, 0040 ACPI: HPET 7FEE7F00, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 98) ACPI: WDRT 7FEE7F80, 0047 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: MCFG 7FEE8040, 003C (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: APIC 7FEE7E40, 0068 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec0] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec0, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed0 Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 7ff0:6010) Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 519907 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.23-rc6 ro root=302 mapped APIC to b000 (fee0) mapped IOAPIC to a000 (fec0) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Detected 2970.093 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x34 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 2074112k/2096000k available (2355k kernel code, 20880k reserved, 827k data, 184k init, 1178496k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfff9b000 - 0xf000 ( 400 kB) pkmap : 0xff80 - 0xffc0 (4096 kB)
Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been pretty ill. i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge PCI vidcard. Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again, but, just to be complete i include the requested info: Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = undef; eol2 = undef; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon -iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke --- dmesg Linux version 2.6.23-rc6sophia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.2.0) #1 SMP Fri Sep 14 12:08:46 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f400 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7fee (usable) BIOS-e820: 7fee - 7fee3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 7fee3000 - 7fef (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7fef - 7ff0 (reserved) BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved) 1150MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f3ef0 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524000) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 - 4096 Normal 4096 - 229376 HighMem229376 - 524000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0:0 - 524000 On node 0 totalpages: 524000 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 2301 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 292323 pages, LIFO batch:31 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP 000F7CF0, 0014 (r0 RD580 ) ACPI: RSDT 7FEE3040, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: FACP 7FEE30C0, 0074 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: DSDT 7FEE3180, 4C56 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 10E) ACPI: FACS 7FEE, 0040 ACPI: HPET 7FEE7F00, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 98) ACPI: WDRT 7FEE7F80, 0047 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: MCFG 7FEE8040, 003C (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: APIC 7FEE7E40, 0068 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD0) ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec0] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec0, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed0 Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 7ff0:6010) Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 519907 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.23-rc6 ro root=302 mapped APIC to b000 (fee0) mapped IOAPIC to a000 (fec0) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Detected 2970.093 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x34 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 2074112k/2096000k available (2355k kernel code, 20880k reserved, 827k data, 184k init, 1178496k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfff9b000 - 0xf000 ( 400 kB) pkmap : 0xff80 - 0xffc0 (4096 kB)
Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: > i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel > version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, > both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? > > No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using > resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the > bottom of the screen, invisible. > > Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs > 2.6.22-rc7. > > i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console > display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD > screen. Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the bottom of the screen, invisible. Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs 2.6.22-rc7. i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD screen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the bottom of the screen, invisible. Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs 2.6.22-rc7. i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD screen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote: i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch. Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel? No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the bottom of the screen, invisible. Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs 2.6.22-rc7. i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD screen. Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a? Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
