On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 10:54 AM stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been having an issue with Fedora virtual consoles coming up with > the wrong color scheme for a while. Instead of coming up with white on > black, they come up as grey on white. When I startx, X resets the > parameters and they revert to white on black. The settings programs > don't work to change this from within the virtual consoles themselves. > > I think I've traced this to a problem with radeonfb not initializing > the virtual console parameters properly, so that when systemd > instantiates them, they don't get proper settings. The problem is not > there on an old 4.13.9 kernel on an old version of Fedora, while it is > there on that old version with newer kernels. When I went to get the > source in koji for that kernel, I see that it has been deleted, as have > all other 4.13 kernels. Is there a way to get the src.rpm for those > older kernels, or are they gone to the great bin bucket in the sky? Is > there someplace else I could look for the source for an older kernel > like that? I just want to compare the radeonfb code to see if it > changed. It might be a race condition, since occasionally, the virtual > consoles come up with the proper coloration. In that case there will be > no change in radeonfb, and it is something about the boot process > non-determinism causing the issue. Is there a way to tell the kernel > to boot deterministically? Some configuration option that says, don't > do multithreading during boot? That would allow radeonfb the time to > fill the parameter struct before systemd uses it. Any kernel that was shipped in a release is still in koij. E.g. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=965691 All of the sources are also in Fedora dist-git on the various branches. 'fedpkg clone kernel' and happy spelunking. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/MGZWD4BGTGDWVPS5YGCTMBOU5LED4GOH/
