Re: Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

[Pete Harlan]

I have the same problem, also with an S3 ViRGE/DX card.  I can produce
it by stopping and starting xdm.

Running "setfont" (or is that "seT7onT"?) restores the vc console
fonts, but it's probably a bug in the SVGA's server for this chipset.

Perhaps it's fixed in 3.3.3...

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Re: Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

[Carey Evans]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruchira Datta) writes:

> Sometimes when I switch from X to a virtual
> console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, the virtual console starts substituting some
> characters for others.

Try the command `setfont'.

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Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

[Ruchira Datta]

I'm sorry if a similar message has appeared before.  It seemed not to have
gone through.

I recently installed Debian 2.0 on my Pentium 233 MMX with 64 MB SDRAM, with
an S3d ViRGE/DX 375 VGA card with 4 MB DRAM and a Samsung SyncMaster 4Ne
monitor (though I don't think the monitor has anything to do with it).
I installed XFree86, running the SVGA server in S3 ViRGE mode, with no options,
at 1024x768 resolution, 24 bpp.  Sometimes when I switch from X to a virtual
console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, the virtual console starts substituting some
characters for others.  This happens on all the virtual consoles, not just
the one I first switched to.  I have tried "tset" and "reset", to no effect.
The only solution is to reboot.  For example, the sentence "the quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog" looks like "$he !%ick b"o'n fo( j%m # o&e" $he 
la*) dog".  They are all printable ASCII characters from the same font.  It
seems that the text-mode display of the video card is messed up.  Can
anyone help me?

ADVthanksANCE

Ruchira Datta
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