Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
oh yeah, got the source for svgatextmode, but haven't tried it yet, though sounds promising. On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: gabe-- It's a shot it the dark, but...check to see if your kernel has Radeon display support enabled. I encountered the same symptoms running a distribution kernel (Debian Woody) with a FireGL 1000 Pro Card. In my case all the virtual consoles went away when _entering_ X with startx. But that wasn't apparent until you exited X. I built a new kernel with the correct options and, _voila_, the problem went away. Also, a good reference is: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:04 PM, gabebf wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 __ Ode On A Sugar Sweet LAN I love my 'pooters, and my 'pooters love me. We're just a big digital family. Me and my 'pooters, we get along fine. I'm super tickled, my 'pooters are mine. __ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
Well, it was working with the ati driver in 4.2.x that came with OpenBSD 3.2 (should have mentioned the OS). Thanks, though. Actually, the only reason I went to the trouble of installing 4.3.0 was to fix this ghosting/blurring/echoing artifact, which had nothing to do with the drivers - it was my multiple vga cable connections. I can live with it, though, if I don't want X running (and want the console), rebooting isn't a problem. Really no big deal. Thanks everyone. On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: gabe-- It's a shot it the dark, but...check to see if your kernel has Radeon display support enabled. I encountered the same symptoms running a distribution kernel (Debian Woody) with a FireGL 1000 Pro Card. In my case all the virtual consoles went away when _entering_ X with startx. But that wasn't apparent until you exited X. I built a new kernel with the correct options and, _voila_, the problem went away. Also, a good reference is: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html __ Ode On A Sugar Sweet LAN I love my 'pooters, and my 'pooters love me. We're just a big digital family. Me and my 'pooters, we get along fine. I'm super tickled, my 'pooters are mine. __ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
gabe-- It's a shot it the dark, but...check to see if your kernel has Radeon display support enabled. I encountered the same symptoms running a distribution kernel (Debian Woody) with a FireGL 1000 Pro Card. In my case all the virtual consoles went away when _entering_ X with startx. But that wasn't apparent until you exited X. I built a new kernel with the correct options and, _voila_, the problem went away. Also, a good reference is: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:04 PM, gabebf wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Monday, July 14, 2003 11:03 am, Pigeon wrote: > Unfortunately, SVGATextMode doesn't support the Radeon 7500. (Yet. I'm > trying to hack it, but don't expect results any time soon :-) ) It supports generic VGA mode. That's what I have it for---resetting my screen when I really, really need it. I hacked my kernel to set a nice screen resolution and a custom font at boot time. SVGATextMode doesn't honor this, so when I use it I lose my resolution until reboot, but it beats a black or mangled display. Last resort stuff, y'know. (If anyone cares, I can give you my patches. The font looks awesome, but I might be a little biased since I drew it, hehehe.) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:13:58PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: > On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: > > reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says > > something like > > > > delete is now backspace > > kill is now . > > interrupt > > > > but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. > > reset only attempts to clear your terminal and set it to a "sane" state. It > doesn't actually fiddle with your graphics card. reset is good for fixing > problems like having echo disabled, the wrong character set, vertical > scrolling disabled, and so on---just "logical" terminal mis-settings. > > SVGATextMode, on the other hand, will reset your graphics card as well. Gvie > that a try. I'm not sure what all platforms SVGATextMode works on, though. Unfortunately, SVGATextMode doesn't support the Radeon 7500. (Yet. I'm trying to hack it, but don't expect results any time soon :-) ) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Andy Goth wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. reset only attempts to clear your terminal and set it to a "sane" state. It doesn't actually fiddle with your graphics card. reset is good for fixing problems like having echo disabled, the wrong character set, vertical scrolling disabled, and so on---just "logical" terminal mis-settings. SVGATextMode, on the other hand, will reset your graphics card as well. Gvie that a try. I'm not sure what all platforms SVGATextMode works on, though. SVGATextMode is no where to be found on my OpenBSD file system. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _ Ode On A Sugar Sweet LAN I love my 'pooters, and my 'pooters love me. We're just a big digital family. Me and my 'pooters, we get along fine. I'm super tickled, my 'pooters are mine. __ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: > reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says > something like > > delete is now backspace > kill is now . > interrupt > > but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. reset only attempts to clear your terminal and set it to a "sane" state. It doesn't actually fiddle with your graphics card. reset is good for fixing problems like having echo disabled, the wrong character set, vertical scrolling disabled, and so on---just "logical" terminal mis-settings. SVGATextMode, on the other hand, will reset your graphics card as well. Gvie that a try. I'm not sure what all platforms SVGATextMode works on, though. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 04:46 AM, Jarmo Paavilainen wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 01:39, gabe f wrote: I'm reposting this - no one knows what this is? I do not know what is causing it, nor how to fix it. Ive had similar trouble on some (older) Hercules cards, but a simple "reset" usually fixed that. Just type: reset when X has exited. It might give you a usefull terminal. // Jarmo I disabled dbe, but it didn't make any difference. It's like the text color is black, or something. I experienced text color being changed to blue for a while, then I changed XF86Config, and this started happening - maybe the config changes just changed the text color to a (much) darker blue? So, as a workaround, how do I change the text color in terminal mode? Also, I have no lilo, as I'm using OpenBSD 3.2. On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & Matrox etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 ... ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _ Ode On A Sugar Sweet LAN I love my 'pooters, and my 'pooters love me. We're just a big digital family. Me and my 'pooters, we get along fine. I'm super tickled, my 'pooters are mine. __ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 01:39, gabe f wrote: > I'm reposting this - no one knows what this is? I do not know what is causing it, nor how to fix it. Ive had similar trouble on some (older) Hercules cards, but a simple "reset" usually fixed that. Just type: reset when X has exited. It might give you a usefull terminal. // Jarmo > > I disabled dbe, but it didn't make any difference. > It's like the text color is black, or something. I experienced text > color being changed to > blue for a while, then I changed XF86Config, and this started happening > - maybe > the config changes just changed the text color to a (much) darker blue? > So, as a > workaround, how do I change the text color in terminal mode? Also, I > have no > lilo, as I'm using OpenBSD 3.2. > > On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: > >> I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X > >> 4.3.0 > >> from startx, and works fine, but on exit, > >> I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and > >> it works. What is it? > >> > >> I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a > >> crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. > >> > >> gabe > >> > > I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & > > Matrox > > etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use > > framebuffer > > mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. > > -- > > Ken Thompson WA7SYR > > Payette, Idaho > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You > > Registered Linux User #183936 ... ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
I'm reposting this - no one knows what this is? I disabled dbe, but it didn't make any difference. It's like the text color is black, or something. I experienced text color being changed to blue for a while, then I changed XF86Config, and this started happening - maybe the config changes just changed the text color to a (much) darker blue? So, as a workaround, how do I change the text color in terminal mode? Also, I have no lilo, as I'm using OpenBSD 3.2. On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & Matrox etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _ Ode On A Sugar Sweet LAN I love my 'pooters, and my 'pooters love me. We're just a big digital family. Me and my 'pooters, we get along fine. I'm super tickled, my 'pooters are mine. __ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
also, I'm not using linux, OpenBSD 3.2 On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & Matrox etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
I disabled dbe, but I can still just barely read the text when back in terminal mode. Like the text color is black, or something. I experienced text color being changed to blue for a while, then I changed XF86Config, and this started happening - maybe the config changes just changed the text color to a (much) darker blue? So, as a workaround, how do I change the text color in terminal mode? On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & Matrox etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote: > I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 > from startx, and works fine, but on exit, > I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and > it works. What is it? > > I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a > crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. > > gabe > I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA & Matrox etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 from startx, and works fine, but on exit, I don't have a screen, but i can type "shutdown -r now", blindly, and it works. What is it? I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15. gabe ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
