white stripe on a wider terminal in dual screen mode

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Aljaž Prusnik <prusnik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 14:49 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Aljaž Prusnik <prusnik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi there!
>> >
>> > I posted this on IRC but will do here as well until I know whether I
>> > should file a bug or not.
>> >
>> > In terminal mode (with KMS) and dual screen (left monitor: 1920x1200,
>> > right monitor 1600x1200) I have a white stripe on the left monitor and
>> > it looks like if it's a compensation for the missing 320 pixels of the
>> > right monitor. The picture is here:
>> > http://www.tikataka.com/files/dualscreen_low.JPG
>> >
>> > Is this a known issue?
>> >
>>
>> This is not a driver bug, it is a limitation of the kernel framebuffer
>> and console interfaces.  They don't have any concept of multi-head
>> cards.  In order to prevent any information printed to the console
>> from being lost, the console comes up as the largest size that will
>> fit on all attached monitors.  If you want a more flexible use the
>> monitors, you'll need to use the kms interface like the X driver does.
>>
>
> Thanx for the info. I'm not sure I understand the last sentence nor I'm
> sure I'll ever need such thing it's only the white color that is a
> little annoying, hence another question - is there a chance for the
> "missing space" to not be white (and be black)? Is this something they
> can do in that kernel framebuffer or do they need the white color to
> catch the potentially lost stuff?

We should be able to change the color.

Alex