linux-kernel - Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6

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Message-Id: <1190105055.6446.2.camel@daplas>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:44:15 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	lnx-kern@....com
Cc:	Kernel Mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VGA text console display problem with kernel 2.6.23-rc5/6

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote:
> i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel 
> version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6,
> both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch.

Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel?

> 
> No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using 
> resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the 
> bottom of the screen, invisible.
> 
> Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs 
> 2.6.22-rc7.
> 
> i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console 
> display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD 
> screen.

Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a?

Tony


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