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> this is a really strange issue i'm having: |
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> i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based |
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> motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. |
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> So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And |
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> actually it worked perfect! |
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> No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see |
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> the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but |
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> the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the |
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> lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where |
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> the consolefont is set. And guess what: |
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> then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen |
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> and so on. |
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> So something is wrong here. |
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> Any clue, how i might fix it? |
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So my theory is, that the System-BIOS (which uses graphics mode too, |
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IMHO) does some strange initialization of the graphics card, and the |
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linux-kernel doesn't reset it. |
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