[gentoo-user] switched from SiS to VIA chipset -> vesa framebuffer broken

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

this is a really strange issue i'm having:

i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based
motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based.

So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And
actually it worked perfect!

No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see
the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but
the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the
lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where
the consolefont is set. And guess what:

then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen
and so on.


So something is wrong here.

Any clue, how i might fix it?