Den Tue, 20 Jun 2000 skrev du:
> Johan Bengtsson wrote:
> >I have an ATI Rage II graphic card, and when I first ran Arahne the "RAGE"
> >driver was used - autodetected somehow... This worked but when using this
> >driver I had a strange red tint over the screen! I switched to the VESA
> driver
> >instead, that resulted in the red tint disappearing, but another problem
> >occured. When using ESC to leave Arachne with this driver, some sort of crash
> >happens, the screen becomes a blur of colors, and it's impossible to get back
> >to bash...
>
> Can you switch to another console while running Arachne?
No, I get a totally ¤?*!&¤# screen if I try that - switching back to X works
though...
Johan
> I don't get the screen back and have a ATI Rage IIe (IIRC). I think this
> fault is from either the VESA drivers or from the ATI Rage II cards since
> switching the card back into text mode don't fix it (which isn't done by
> the official Arachne release). I've tried with the latest SVGAlib versions
> (1.4.2 and 1.9.5) but it hasn't worked (actually I can't get 1.9.5 to work
> at all - it complains about /dev/svga all the time...)
> You can perhaps try 1.4.2 as well, especially these two changes are
> important for ATI owners (I think):
>
> * workaround for double clock speed in some ATI Rage cards.
> * some fixes to rage driver (for 24 bit modes)
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