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[Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone please re-open this bug - it has NOT been fixed.  This issue is
also present in Jaunty, with new symptoms that don't seem to be
described here.

I've Googled for a few hours already, and have searched the bug reports
here on Launchpad.  I have not come across anything else appropriate to
post to, so here I am.

All of these symptoms seem to be additive - any or all can occur at the
same time:

1.  With the default console font, size, and splash screen settings as
supplied with a Jaunty install, the console frequently comes up in
something like 40x25 text mode when called upon with Ctrl-Alt-F1 after
having started X.  The result strongly resembles the look of an 8-bitter
running in 40x25 mode, when accessing an 80x25-oriented online service.

2. Sometimes the system will forget how to position the cursor, leaving
it flashing in the upper-left corner of the screen.  Text being
displayed and/or typed seems to be positioned properly otherwise,
subject to the other symptoms herein.

3. Sometimes, the system forgets how to scroll the screen.  No matter
how much text is printed, it is as if one had paged up to the top of an
ever-expanding scrollback buffer.  Hitting Control-L and then briefly
switching to any other virtual console helps some.

4. Rarely, the console font will be replaced with garbage (thin vertical
stripes, in my case).  One can see where text has been printed, blindly
execute commands, switch consoles, even start X and use it normally, but
the console font is otherwise completely garbled.

5. In one instance, for whatever reason, the console got into a state
that looked like it had confused the horizontal and vertical sync.  The
result was a repeated pattern of text fragments covering the entire
screen, scrolling diagonally (how my LCDs managed to show this, I have
no idea).  The last time this happened, I had switched from the splash
screen over to an 80x60 text console (kernel mode 0xF06, set via my Grub
config prior to rebooting).  The computer was otherwise operational.

I gave up after Googling and arguing with my machine for a number of
hours.  On doing so, I disabled the boot splash screen, disabled all
framebuffer-related features, set my Grub config for 80x50 text (kernel
mode 0xF01), set the console font to 8 pixels (by editing /etc/default
/console-setup), and rebooted.  Everything looks fine until X starts,
after which the virtual console switches to double-spaced 80x50 text
when called forth, as if it were an 80x100 virtual terminal with a
viewport fixed on the upper 50 lines.  Running `sudo /etc/init.d
/console-setup start` brings it back to a sane state.

I can probably put my system back into any of the above states and
submit screenshots, if necessary.

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correct font is not restore after switch back from X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60600
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