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port-arm/54342: Pinebook screen glitches/offsets on top and extreme right of the screen with modeset enabled
>Number: 54342
>Category: port-arm
>Synopsis: Pinebook screen glitches/offsets on top and extreme right of the screen with modeset enabled
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-arm-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 04 09:05:00 +0000 2019
>Originator: Leonardo Taccari
>Release: NetBSD 8.99.49
>Organization:
Università Politecnica delle Marche
>Environment:
System: GENERIC64 NetBSD 8.99.49 of 12:00 UTC Jul 2 2019
Architecture: aarch64
Machine: evbarm
>Description:
On 14" Pinebook model when booting with `modeset' (default) enabled
there are screen glitches/wrong offsets on the top of the screen and
extreme right. ASCII art trying to illustrate the problem:
+---------------------------------------+
|=======================================|<- unexpected "violet" bar
|[ ||\
|[ || \
|[ || | the first `[' character
|[ || | of dmesg timestamp can
|[ || | be seen on the extreme
|[ || | right too
|[ || /
|[ ||/
|_ _|<- part of the input cursor
+---------------------------------------+ can be seen on the
extreme right
...and here the corresponding photograph of the problem:
<https://www.NetBSD.org/~leot/tmp/pinebook-modeset-screen_problems.jpg>
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot a GENERIC64 kernel on a 14" Pinebook.
>Fix:
No idea, sorry!
A possible workaround to that problem is to boot the kernel with
`nomodeset', e.g. on the EFI prompt:
> boot netbsd nomodeset
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