Over the years, I have used Linux on a dozen different computers and have never run into this problem before. I've just installed Slackware 7.1 on a Compaq 400 (MMX) with S3 Virge video card. Everything is working OK (including the XFree 3.3.6 S3V server) except that when, I exit X and return to the console, the screen is scrambled.
I don't mean the messed-up characters you get when you cat a non- text file (which is easily fixed). That only affects the current tty. The problem I am getting affects all ttys and isn't just a character problem. The whole screen layout is stuffed. Lines are fragmented and scattered all over the screen, and the cursor is way over on the right side of the screen. I can type (and execute) at the cursor, but everything I type appears in two or three different places around the screen. I have tried everything I can think of (clear, reset, exit and re- logon) and nothing fixes the problem. Switching ttys doesn't help. The only way to get a normal CLI screen is to reboot. The X screen is not effected (even from the scrambled CLI screen I can startx). Some further data: The problem occurs as soon as the S3V server starts -- if I CTRL-ALT-F4 while X is running, I see a scrambled screen. The problem does *not* occur when I run the VGA16 server. Both of those servers work perfectly in every other respect. Any ideas? Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
