console troubles and Xorg

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OsirisGod · Post by **OsirisGod** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:30 am

Hi... I have the following problem
I boot my gentoo in with the kernel parameter "vga=4" [80x30] no framebuffer.
It works fine... I mean I get the 80x30 console... but when I start X and switch back to the text console, i get a 80x25 + 5 rows OFFSCREEN...
I tried different consolefonts... I even tried different "vga=" options... with the same result.

The kernel is vanilla-2.6.20_rc5. I have suport for "Video mode selection support".

I have a P4 core2 duo + nVidia 7300GT videocard...

Any ideeas?

x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r4
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746

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# uname -a
Linux ra 2.6.20-rc5-7 #5 SMP Fri Jan 19 19:16:44 EET 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.20-rc5-7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-rc5-7 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:31:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/home/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp"
PORTDIR="/home/portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portage/custom"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acl acpi aim alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol arts bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib caps cdparanoia cli clibpdf contactnotes crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dbx dga dio divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc encode exif expat fftw flac flash foomaticcdb fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gnutls history icq idn imap imlib innodb input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irc isdnlog jabber javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux latex lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text linguas_en lirc lirc_devices_kworld lm_sensors logrotate mad maildir memlimit mhash mime mmap mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz nagios-dns ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl pam pcntl pcre perl pic plotutils png posix ppds quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sensord session sharedmem slp smime sockets softmmu spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl subversion svg sysvipc szip tcpd tetex tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l2 vhosts video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs wmf xcomposite xml xnns xorg xosd xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zip zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

kruel · Post by **kruel** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:13 am

Have you tried using the VESA framebuffer instead of the SVGA mode console?

The vesafb driver is compatable with the nvidia binary drivers and should give you the nice resolution in the console. Did you want to try that and see if it still gives you the trouble?

If you are absolutly against using framebuffer. There is an svgamode command ( I have not used it in a long long long time ) that should allow you to reset the mode of the console. But it would be annoying to have to do it everytime you exit X.org.

P.S. That is alot of USE flags!

OsirisGod · Post by **OsirisGod** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:06 am

I forgot to mention that if I run "setfont" console gets back to normal. But I don't want to do that.

I dont't want framebuffer. just svga console.
This happened to me a while ago... on another pc... with a ATI Radeon.
Same behaviour.
On my older PC this did not happen...
Don't know why... Perhaps is videocard related... or driver related...

PS: theese are my real USE flags...

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USE="-* sse sse2 mmx X aac acl acpi aim alsa arts bcmath berkdb \
     bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib caps cdparanoia cli clibpdf contactnotes crypt \
     cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dbx dga dio divx4linux \
     dlloader dri dvd dvdread encode exif expat fftw flac flash foomaticcdb \
     fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gnutls history icq idn imap imlib innodb \
     ipv6 irc isdnlog jabber javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal latex \
     lirc lm_sensors logrotate mad maildir memlimit mhash mime mmap mmx \
     mmxext mng mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz nagios-dns ncurses nls \
     nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl pam pcntl pcre perl pic \
     plotutils png posix ppds quicktime readline \
     reflection samba sasl session sharedmem slp smime sockets softmmu spell \
     spl sql ssl subversion svg sysvipc szip tcpd tetex tidy tiff tokenizer \
     truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l2 vhosts vorbis \
     win32codecs wmf xcomposite xml xnns xorg xosd xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zip \
     zlib sensord"

R-Type · Post by **R-Type** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:08 am

I hate to bump an older thread, but I too am having the same problem, except with an 80x50 textmode console. The system boots ok, but when I switch back from an X session, the prompt text appears to overlap as though it draws once, and then again half a line higher for a 'one-and-a-half' character vertical effect. typing setfont alt-8x8 fixes it but I must do this each time I switch from X.. Up till now, I have been masking nvidia-drivers newer than 9631 to avoid this but I know this wont' last forever. ..and this bug is still present in the 9755 drivers.

I know, I know.. I should go post this on nvnews.