> this is a really strange issue i'm having: > > i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based > motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. > > So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And > actually it worked perfect! > > No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see > the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but > the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the > lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where > the consolefont is set. And guess what: > > then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen > and so on. > > So something is wrong here. > > Any clue, how i might fix it?
So my theory is, that the System-BIOS (which uses graphics mode too, IMHO) does some strange initialization of the graphics card, and the linux-kernel doesn't reset it.
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