Bug 155
| Summary: | Console fonts messed up | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | stone |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-28 16:29:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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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. This does not seem to occur anymore with XFree86-3.3.3.1 that ships with 6.0. Suggest upgrading to those. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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.