Bug 124090 – fbdev driver xorg 6.8.2 & amd64 with vesafb driver unusable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Peter Parkanyi 2006-02-25 10:46:55 UTC]

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointers"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aim alsa arts audiofile avi bash-completion bash-completition berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl directfb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gif glut gmp gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq idn imap imlib jikes jpeg kde lcms lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mng mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sqlite ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales xml2 xpm xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Peter Parkanyi 2006-02-25 10:57:20 UTC]

Each time i want to start xorg (version 6.8.2-r6) with fbdev driver, irrespectively of the xorg.conf file, it shows kind of greenish screen, with coloury lines, and the character outlines are also coloury. If i move the cursor, it makes the screen black on that place it touched. Clicking and other stuff works, because i could load some page with firefox, but they are unreadable. The half of the application window isn't visible anyway(the half of the screen in width is scaled to fit the whole display area). It is completely unusable.

I hope it were useful.

[Comment 2 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 20:24:21 UTC]

You mention vesafb in the summary.  Does it work fine without?

What video card do you have?

[Comment 3 Peter Parkanyi 2006-02-28 06:12:37 UTC]

I have GeForce FX 5200. Do you think of start x without loading vesafb on bootup? I'll try it out later today.

[Comment 4 Peter Parkanyi 2006-03-01 09:14:10 UTC]

if i don't load vesafb on bootup, it doesn't load at all, because fb interface doesn't load.

[Comment 5 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-03-01 19:28:00 UTC]

Ehhe, silly me, of course.

Have you tried other FB drivers, such as the nVidia-specific ones?

[Comment 6 Peter Parkanyi 2006-03-06 08:05:21 UTC]

I tried out with nvidia driver, but i got the same result. I don't know what could cause such a thing, escpecially because others said it works perfectly for them. :( I gotta use vesa driver because nvidia breaks the console.

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-03-31 19:11:55 UTC]

Please reopen if this remains an issue with modular X.