Screen problem on booting

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/09, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
>> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> > On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2
>> > > >
>> > > > Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the
>> > > > text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or
>> > > > so in every line of text.
>> > > >
>> > > > After login, once I type "startx" the X Window system seems to be OK
>> > > > _and_ if I go back to a console with Alt-Ctrl-Fn the console is fine
>> > > > again.
>> > > >
>> > > > My graphic card is an ATI Radeon HD2400.
>> > > >
>> > > > Anybody noticed it?
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks in advance.
>> > > >
>> > > > PS: In console mode, reset command doesn't fix the problem.
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>> > > >
>> > > Adjust the horizontal position with the controls on the monitor while
>> > > booting? My LCD flat panel has an auto adjust button which does the same
>> > > thing.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yep, but the point is that it worked fine some time ago (probably with
>> > -p1, though I'm not sure). And as I said after using X, if I go back
>> > again to console mode, monitor settings are correct. Doesn't this
>> > means there is some kind of problem with video at start up?
>> > None of my other operating systems in that machine suffer this problem.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> .
>> I thought maybe it was a problem that occurred with whatever graphics driver
>> is loaded on boot and that it goes away once the ATI driver is loaded but
>> maybe not. I just tested mine by using the screen controls to set the screen
>> over to one side while booting. Once X starts and the nvidia driver loads
>> the screen position is fine, however going to a console (ctrl-alt-Fn) the
>> screen is still displaced unlike yours. Sorry if that suggestion doesn't fix
>> it.
>
> Yes, I think that first video driver can be the problem... I will test
> a bit more and then I will probably file a PR.
>
> Thanks again.

Just for the record, I filed  PR.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131448

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>> Chris
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