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From: Fernando <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Bad display while booting
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>Number:         131448
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Bad display while booting
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 06 16:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    Sat Mar 10 08:49:18 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Sat Mar 10 11:30:02 UTC 2012
>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:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->pgollucci 
Responsible-Changed-By: pgollucci 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Feb 8 03:54:27 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131448 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: pgollucci->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: pgollucci 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Feb 8 04:08:37 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
mumble, wrong pr number 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131448 

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: Fernando <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/131448: Bad display while booting
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:10:26 -0800

 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

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/131448: Bad display while booting
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:54:48 +0100

 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
 >
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: jh 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 24 19:59:30 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
Can you still reproduce this on recent FreeBSD versions? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131448 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: jh 
State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 10 08:49:17 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131448 

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/131448: Bad display while booting
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:55:47 +0100

 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!
>Unformatted:
