Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:03:41 GMT From: Fernando <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/131448: Bad display while booting Message-ID: <200902061603.n16G3flK029887@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200902061610.n16GA1oZ059984@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 131448 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Bad display while booting >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 06 16:10:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Fernando >Release: 7.1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD beastie 7.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 #2: Thu Jan 15 07:22:25 CET 2009 root@beastie:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APEKERNEL amd64 >Description: 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). >How-To-Repeat: Booting the system is enough. >Fix: Don't know yet. I couldn't find any workarounds either. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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