[plymouth either not installed (Fedora, openSUSE), or disabled via cmdline option (Mageia)] Adam Jackson wrote on 2014-09-24 12:28 (UCT-0400): > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 21:35 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> with neither VGA= nor video= on cmdline, ttys are in a legacy 80x25 >> video mode that is broken. Trailing spaces are written to screen as high >> ASCII characters both in bash and parts of mc. Some program output that >> should be in text is also these junk characters. > That's probably a bug. It might be in your kernel, it might be in your > firmware. As a text mode issue it is sort of by definition not a > graphics bug, so if anyone else feels like investigating it be my guest. Reproduces using (non-KMS) gfxchips g400 (Dell BIOS) and Z7/Z9 (XG20 core)(sis in Xorg)(Phoenix CSS cME BIOS) in Rawhide (3.17rcx) & F21 (3.16.1-300). Does not occur using (KMS) gfxchips from Intel (945G), ATI (rv200) or Nvidia (nv11), nor with g400 or Z7/Z9 on Factory (3.16.2), nor with Z7/Z9 on Cauldron (3.17rc5). As there are no X drivers for the non-KMS gfxchips in the repos, would a bug filed on this just go in the wontfix bin anyway? If not, what component should it most likely go into? IOW, where's the bug? Clue?: On fresh boot, initial login on tty did thus: # ll / ... Output seemed OK until about the middle screen row, after reaching a directory with a timestamp Dec 23 2008. Subsequent lines all ended with the gibberish characters. On further study, I noticed that most lines output no filename or dirname. The few shown did output correctly the filename characters. # clear just fills the screen past the bash prompt with "Ĝ" characters. Editing cmdline, BS key also draws Ĝ. font= or not on cmdline makes no difference. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
