Bug 155 - Console fonts messed up
Summary: Console fonts messed up
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1998-11-22 18:28 UTC by stone
Modified: 2020-09-27 01:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-06-28 16:29:14 UTC

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Description stone 1998-11-22 18:28:52 UTC 
Console fonts get messed up when switching from
graphic mode to text VT.

a strange thing is that the font doesn't get
messed up totally randomly -- lowe-case characters often
become upper-case..

a setfont will fix the screen.

Using SVGA server.

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 32).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master
Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xffa0.
  Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev
1).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 1998-11-23 12:16:59 UTC 
Using setfont is the currently recommended fix.
We have hopes that XFree86 3.3.3 (out this week) will fix this problem
with the ViRGE chipset cards.
Comment 2 David Lawrence 1999-06-28 16:29:59 UTC 
This does not seem to occur anymore with XFree86-3.3.3.1 that ships
with 6.0. Suggest upgrading to those.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-09-19 22:38:32 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-d358d5b0d8 has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-09-19 22:44:59 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-7a574982d6 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2020-09-25 16:55:35 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-0fedf74544 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2020-09-27 01:34:51 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-66f3795e72 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2020-09-27 01:53:40 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7dbefa245f has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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