Hi Stephen. > 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 affected (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?
Is that by any chance the S3 ViRGE/GX ??? If so, I reported exactly the same problem to this list about two years ago, and the ONLY response I got was a post stating that the symptoms as reported indicated a faulty video card, and claiming that there were a large number of faulty GX cards on the market. The problem apparently doesn't affect the other ViRGE models as I understand it. Best wishes from Riley. --- * Nothing as pretty as a smile, nothing as ugly as a frown. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 1-Jun-2003 - 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
