On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:59, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > >Well, dumping random stuff to console can produce > > > funny results. I'd call that normal. Try cat > > > /dev/urandom, that should be "enough random". > > > > I am also getting strange effects. I boot into > > 2.6.11-rc4 and the console fonts looks fine. Come back > > a day later and the console font has corrupt > > characters. E.g. Displays a "D" instead of an "L" and > > stuff like that. It is mostly readable, except for a > > few characters. It is only the local console that is > > corrupted. ssh into the box displays correct > > characters, so all I can assume is that the VGA console > > is being programmed with different characters. The bad > > characters also survive a soft reboot( During BIOS boot > > up), until the linux kernel starts booting, and then it > > switches to a good font. > > I have seen something similar on S3 cards with bad video > ram (we had > > >3 of them). If it survives soft reboot... well, that > > looks like > > hardware problem to me. [We may do something bad in > linux, too, but strange effects should not survive > reboot, that's hw bug. I'd suggest memtest on video ram, > but someone would need to write that tool, first]. > > Pavel
i810 uses system RAM (which was tested with memtest) In my case, it also does work fine with 2.4.29, thus problem 2.6 specific. Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/