Bug 131448

Summary:	Bad display while booting
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Fernando Apesteguía <fernape>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Fernando Apesteguía freebsd_committer

2009-02-06 16:10:01 UTC

During start up, the menu and the following initialization messages are not shown properly. Display seems to be shifted to the left so the first letters of every line of text are missed.

This didn't happen before (with 7.1-BETA2) and I have the same problem with GENERIC stock kernel.

The other two operating systems installed on this machine don't suffer this problem (Windows Vista & Fedora 9) so it's unlikely a hardware problem. It seems some issue with the video driver.

After login, a "reset" command doesn't fix it. However, if I bring the X-Window system up and then I go back to console mode (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) the console is properly set up. This reinforces my idea of a video driver problem.

The graphic card is an ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro

The same release (7.1-RELEASE-p2) running from a laptop with the offending monitor connected to the laptop's monitor out, behaves fine so I don't think the system has any problems with the monitor itself (wide flat one).

Fix: 

Don't know yet. I couldn't find any workarounds either.
How-To-Repeat: Booting the system is enough.

Comment 1 Philip M. Gollucci freebsd_committer

2009-02-08 03:54:27 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->pgollucci

I'll take it.

Comment 2 Philip M. Gollucci freebsd_committer

2009-02-08 04:08:37 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: pgollucci->freebsd-bugs

mumble, wrong pr number

Comment 3 Garrett Cooper 2009-02-08 23:10:26 UTC

Hi Fernando,
    Have you tried an 8-CURRENT disk yet? There were changes made by
rnoland@ which improved DRM support (and general driver support I
believe) with ATI cards.
Cheers,
-Garrett

Comment 4 Fernando Apesteguía freebsd_committer

2009-02-09 07:54:48 UTC

On 2/9/09, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
>    Have you tried an 8-CURRENT disk yet? There were changes made by
> rnoland@ which improved DRM support (and general driver support I
> believe) with ATI cards.

Not yet. But I'm a bit scared of doing it :)
This was working before. Can you confirm any changes in ATI drivers
support in the last couple of months?

Cheers

> Cheers,
> -Garrett
>

Comment 5 Jaakko Heinonen freebsd_committer

2011-11-24 19:59:30 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Can you still reproduce this on recent FreeBSD versions?

Comment 6 Jaakko Heinonen freebsd_committer

2012-03-10 08:49:17 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.

Comment 7 Fernando Apesteguía freebsd_committer

2012-03-10 10:55:47 UTC

Hi,

I'm so sorry but I don't know how I missed your follow up mail on Thu
Nov 24 19:59:30 UTC 2011.

I can confirm this does not happen in recent versions of FreeBSD.
(neither 8.x or 9.0)


Thanks!