Re: Screen corruption in 2.4.18

[Erik Ljungström]

On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:43:03 +0100
Chris Rankin <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an i840 motherboard with dual 733 MHz PIIIs and a Matrox G400 
> MAX, and I am also seeing console corruption with 2.4.18. The difference 
> with me is that I *only* see it when I am using xine (CVS) and the 
> SyncFB video plugin, possibly the Xv video plugin sometimes too. When I 
> kill xine, the regular multicoloured rectangle disappears from the console.
> 
> Obviously, this isn't something that I would normally notice - I 
> wouldn't have noticed at all if the CVS xine hadn't locked up on me in 
> full-screen mode, forcing me to turn to a console to kill it.
> 
> A few other things:
> - since I have about 1.25 GB of RAM, I have enabled a 256 MB AGP aperture.
> - I am using XFree86 4.2, but with the mga.o module that is native to 
> Linux 2.4.18. I have not installed the Matrox HAL X module.
> 
> Whatever is causing this console corruption, it doesn't seem to be a VIA 
> bug (in my case, anyway).
> 
> Chris
> 
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I'm having the same problem, just that this happens when I've been using mplayer with the -vo vesa parameters. I also have this problem with the 2.4.17 kernel.