[Bug 16553] New: Console font is overwritten by a vram buffers allocation ( seen when switching from X).

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16553

           Summary: Console font is overwritten by a vram buffers allocation
                    (seen when switching from X).
           Product: DRI
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: DRM modules
        AssignedTo: dri...@li...
        ReportedBy: del...@ya...
                CC: sk...@gm...


After X, the console has all the characters except for a few replaced with
pseudographics.

NV43 GeForce 6600LE
Debian lenny/sid (testing)
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
git drm and nouveau.


git-bisect:

b9ed0f995077f69ae806aae2e83085738ea5e651 is first bad commit
commit b9ed0f995077f69ae806aae2e83085738ea5e651
Author: Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@…>
Date:   Mon Jun 23 01:00:42 2008 +1000

    nouveau: allocate drm-use vram buffers from end of vram.

    This avoids seeing garbage from engine setup etc before X gets around
    to pointing the CRTCs at a new scanout buffer.  Not actually a noticable
    problem before G80 as PRAMIN is forced to the end of VRAM by the hardware
    already.

:040000 040000 f5abf3d72faefdbf8030d38cce3f778b74f80708
b1cd605e9c9c882f7a75b1aea2fc76feec2be383 M      shared-core


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