Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Scott Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot this? I didn't find any related bugs on bts. I had similar problems. For me, adding either (or both!): Option TexturedVideo on or Option ModeSetClearScreen false to the Device section of my xorg.conf fixed the problem (sorry I can't work out which exactly, but it should be simple for you to test whether or not either of these will help you). Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg
On Thu,28.Aug.08, 10:35:27, Scott Edwards wrote: I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot this? I didn't find any related bugs on bts. Try running 'reset'. Do you get a usable console after this? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg
On 08/28/2008 11:35 AM, Scott Edwards wrote: I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot this? I didn't find any related bugs on bts. Thanks I've had this problem when experimenting with VESA console modes and exotic console fonts. You might be able to fix the corruption by using consolechars, e.g. consolechars -f lat1-10 The fonts are probably located in /usr/share/consolefonts/ . Be prepared to experiment to find the correct font. You can save the current console font to a file using the -F option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
console font corruption after exiting xorg
I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot this? I didn't find any related bugs on bts. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg
Scott Edwards wrote: I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot this? I didn't find any related bugs on bts. Thanks I had similar problems, and there was one other post, recently, of another user having issues like this. The common denominator in both cases was proprietary video drivers were being used (ATI in their case, and Nvidia in mine). If this is your situation, you may have to get the latest/greatest driver from the involved company and install that (after making all the needed backups of your current setup, particularly the xorg.conf file). Of course, your millage may vary ;) but it could be the same issue. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg
More like a me too, but just a little bit for me. Once in a while, one of the letters have missing part. Like the 'f' have some part missing, or the 'n'. For me rebooting seems to fix it. I had almost the feeling a developper was making some kind of joke. I have a i945GZ chipset, so no proprietary video driver. Of course, my problem is much less than yours, usually just one character with misssing part (like all the 'f' or all the 'n' on the screen.). It made me wonder if my video ram for fonts have a problem. But now I guess there is an other problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
