Re: PROBLEM: virtual console corruption (2.4.1/p4/radeon/XFree864.0.2)

John Cavan (johnc@damncats.org)
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:14:27 -0500


David Wood wrote:
>
> I believe you, although... why doesn't it happen with 2.2.17? vconsole
> buffers in a different place in memory, I suppose?
>
> I'll forward this to the XFree team. Thanks!
> -David

Known bug, they're working on it.

If you want to avoid the corruption, use the Vesa framebuffer driver for
the console for the time being, it works fine for the Radeon.

John
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