On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:23:12AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:02:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> M A Young wrote:
>>> (with nomodeset I get no text characters during
>>> boot - only a cursor that moves as invisible characters are presumably
>>> printed to the screen
>> known issue with vga text mode (32bit only, 64bit works ok). vga window
>> at 0xc0000 isn't mapped correctly. Workaround: drive the card in gfx
>> mode. Either kernel mode setting or vesafb (use something like
>> vga=gfx-1024x768x16 on the *xen* kernel command line).
>
> So the reason for this issue is known.. any patches available?
According to jeremy someone works on unifying 32bit and 64bit page table
initalization, which should nicely fix this issue as a side effect.
VGA text console works OK for me now, on 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0, using the
latest xen-tip/next tree!
-- Pasi