Virtual console size isn't detected correctly

Bug #543912 reported by أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
8
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

  The virtual console size is supposed to be 50x160, yet after I upgraded to Lucid beta1, sometimes the size is detected to be 30x106. Funny thing is that although the resolution is set correctly, yet I am only able to work in the upper/left 75% of the screen.

I am attaching a text file depicting what I mean.

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ant1 2182 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6afc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,10280263,00100302 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 23
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Mon Mar 22 06:30:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Frequency: Once a day.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2d2733cb-5183-499b-805f-443db67429ab
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5500
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-16-generic 2.6.32-16.25
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=f7569fdd-a8bf-4fd1-ae2d-d4842dbf5621 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
Reproducible: No
SourcePackage: linux
TestedUpstream: No
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0DW634
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd04/15/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DW634:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
---
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ant1 2327 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6afc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,10280263,00100302 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 23
   Simple ctrls : 12
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Frequency: Once a day.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2d2733cb-5183-499b-805f-443db67429ab
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5500
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=f7569fdd-a8bf-4fd1-ae2d-d4842dbf5621 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32+usbfs-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
Reproducible: No
Tags: lucid graphics regression-potential needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0DW634
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd04/15/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DW634:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

Hi أحمد,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 543912

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

    [This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]

tags: added: needs-kernel-logs
tags: added: kj-triage
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Re: [Bug 543912] Re: Virtual console size isn't detected correctly

Yes, this bug still happens. But as I mentioned in the bug report, it
doesn't happen with every reboot. So when it occurs again, I'll do the
apport-collect thing.

--
 ‎أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
  Digital design engineer
 GPG KeyID: 0xEDDDA1B7
 GPG Fingerprint: 8206 A196 2084 7E6D 0DF8 B176 BC19 6A94 EDDD A1B7

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : AlsaDevices.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : AplayDevices.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : BootDmesg.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : CRDA.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Card0.Amixer.values.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Card0.Codecs.codec.1.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Card0.Codecs.codec.2.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : CurrentDmesg.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : IwConfig.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Lspci.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Lsusb.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : PciMultimedia.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : ProcCpuinfo.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : ProcInterrupts.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : ProcModules.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : RfKill.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : UdevDb.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : UdevLog.txt

apport information

Revision history for this message
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : WifiSyslog.txt

apport information

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: regression-potential
Revision history for this message
penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

أحمد المحمودي, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.11

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
To post a comment you must log in.