[Voyage-linux] Local console graphic failure

[mad qwerty]

Hi list, it's my first post here..
1st of all, HUGE Thanks to Punky-tse and all contributors for this GREAT
project :-)

i'm very rookie with Linux in general, so i anticipate my excuses,
try to be more simple as possible, when helping me (thanks in advance)

I'm using Voyage MPD 0.7.5 onto an AMD E-350 platform (exactly this :
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1I_DELUXE/ )
and had some tests on different notebooks, and VMware.

It seems that Voyage starts booting with a real 80x25-char text console,
then, at a certain time, it changes the screen output into a graphic
"simil-text" console (i read somewhere the correct name of this "simil-text"
but i can't remember now)
you can clearly see monitor going off for a while, then come back with a
graphic "simil-text" behaviour, with more line & rows char width and length.

This operation goes OK on older notebooks,
but into an almost-modern HP EliteBook 6930p, and into my reference platform
(AMD E350) this operation leads to a graphic failure,
screen filled of random pixels, and there's no way to get local console
resetting or working,
i can't switch tty virtual consoles, nor "clear" or "clear_console" commands
reset this crash.

SSH sessions via IP connection are available, as Voyage continues to boot
without worries.

i searched info by googling the web :
- similar problem here :
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.jp%2F~tt%2Fjournal%2F531820&act=urlbut
no solution provided (if i well understood the translation)
- AMD driver doesn't install because it needs an X server (
http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=145785 )
- i tried installing "fbset" , and i was able to change /dev/fb0 width and
height on working hardware, but no change or variations in not-working
hardware
- i tried vga=nnn parameter onto kernel row on /boot/grub/menu.lst, but it
changes the behaviour only for the period from startup to the crash (change
to "simil-text" console will always perform)

can someone help me,
is there a way to avoid this "simil-tex" switch, and remain into a real
80x25 text console,
or where i can control and set this graphic "simil-text" behaviour ?

another curious thing :
if i take an image of the Voyage disk running with AMD E350, and restoring
it into a virtual environment, the switch from real 80x25 text console to
"simil-text" graphic console doesn't happen,
and the virtual voyage doesn't have /dev/fb0 framebuffer! of course, also
fbset won't work..
it seems like VMware tells Voyage about a very basic video hardware, and
Voyage responds with a very basic-default video driver, with no framebuffer
support (and no graphic crash also)

Can be a possibility to replicate / impose this use of a very basic-common
video driver,
also into my real E350 environment ?

Strong thanks in advance to all of you,
best regards,
Marco
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