display problems

Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

Hi,
I'm having a real problem and I hope someone can help. To sum up what's happening, everytime I quit X to return to the basic shell the display on my monitor is a garbled, illegible mess. It only happens when I quit X; when I first boot-up and receive the command prompt everything's fine. The only major change I can think of lately is upgrading to Kernel 2.6.12.5, but I'm not entirely certain the two coincide.
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dbasetrinity · Apprentice Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 167

when you updated you kernel did you do build it fresh or use genkernel

i would say i would double check your kernel config look also at maybe updating you video drivers.

Then my other one is why would you want to go back out of xorg at all lol....

Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

I compiled the kernel manually as I always have so far, and I have checked my settings and can't see anything wrong there. I have the latest stable ATI drivers for my architecture(AMD64). Display is fine under X, but screwy in shell. Must be a different driver running each mode I guess.
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Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

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Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

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Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

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Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

Are you using framebuffer? If so, which one? VESA, vesafb-tng, ati, etc. I would recommend vesafb-tng if you aren't using one (still recommend it if you are), unless you are using x86_64, in which case you will be stuck with regular vesa.
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Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

In kernel config I've chosen the vesafb although I do have an amd64 processor, is this incorrect?

After much reading and tweaking, I'm no closer to inderstanding what's causing this......

*edit* solved (stupid me forgetting to mount /boot before copying kernel....

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Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

Yeah, vesafb is correct. Are you enabling the framebuffer via your bootloader? e.g. vga=0x31B sets it to 1280x1024@24 (need it on the kernel line in grub.conf if that is what you are using).
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Jeze · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hamilton, ON

ya, now that I'm actually using the new kernel config everything is fine. I found a good tutorial on framebuffer config here and followed it so now I have nice high res console!.
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Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

Glad to know it's working

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