Mailing List Archive: RS/6000 matroxfb display corruption

I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and
a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3)
seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text
console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins
on the screen. The problem is the text on the monitor is garbled and/or
backwards. For example, the text under the penguins appears to be
Japanese or Chinese. If I type 'ls' I get what appears to be a
directory listing: "[some strange symbol]SNARLBT." I think this is
supposed to be TRANS.TBL. If I 'cd /' and 'ls' I get a mixture of
Japanese/Chinese-appearing characters and directory names such as
"toob", "toor", "nibs", and "emoh" instead of "boot", "root", "sbin", and
"home". A couple hours with Google has not been enlightening. I am new
to the PPC platform and new to Gentoo. Any ideas?
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:01:11PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> I am attempting to install on an RS/6000 with two power3 processors and
> a Matrox Mystique video card. The cd (2005.0; I also tried 2004.3)
> seems to boot properly (that is, without error messages on the text
> console). The framebuffer seems to work as I get two smiling penguins
> on the screen. The problem is the text on the monitor is garbled and/or
> backwards. For example, the text under the penguins appears to be
> Japanese or Chinese. If I type 'ls' I get what appears to be a
> directory listing: "[some strange symbol]SNARLBT." I think this is
> supposed to be TRANS.TBL. If I 'cd /' and 'ls' I get a mixture of
> Japanese/Chinese-appearing characters and directory names such as
> "toob", "toor", "nibs", and "emoh" instead of "boot", "root", "sbin", and
> "home". A couple hours with Google has not been enlightening. I am new
> to the PPC platform and new to Gentoo. Any ideas?

It appears this is a bug that has been fixed (#88074). It also appears
that I need to better refine my search terms. :-)
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