[Voyage-linux] Local console graphic failure

[Chance Walton]

Good Morning everyone,

 

I have a Sony Via laptop (700mhz) that has the same problem.  Has there
been any more discussion or a workaround for this?

 

Thank you,



Chance Walton
chanwalt at technicalelite.com
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From: voyage-linux-bounces+chanwalt=technicalelite.com at list.voyage.hk
[mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+chanwalt=technicalelite.com at list.voyage.hk]
On Behalf Of mad qwerty
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:33 PM
To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: [Voyage-linux] Local console graphic failure

 

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
<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%2F5318
20&act=url>
&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashd
ot.jp%2F~tt%2Fjournal%2F531820&act=url but 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
<http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=145785>
&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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