Re: X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread dancer
Same here, on my TNT2 viper v770. Every time X starts up, the brightness of the text on the virtual consoles is halved. After about 3 goes round, the consoles are unusable, though X continues to display at the expected brightness. I'm certain this is an upstream problem, and not a debian one. D

Re: X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread dancer
Same here, on my TNT2 viper v770. Every time X starts up, the brightness of the text on the virtual consoles is halved. After about 3 goes round, the consoles are unusable, though X continues to display at the expected brightness. I'm certain this is an upstream problem, and not a debian one. D

Re: X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas (2000-09-08 12:14:10 +0200) : > Other problem (bigger): once I find that I have to run XFree86, do > some stuff (mainly work :-), then I quit. Supposedly I should find my > good ole console again, huh? Well, I do, but the screen keeps black. > I can use the console if I know what to

X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
Hi all, Encouraged by the transition from phase1 to phase2, I decided to switch to Xfree86 4.0.1. Okay, so I twitched my sources.list file, and here goes. My hardware is this: video card is a Riva TNT2 with 32 Mb RAM, monitor is a Dell P991 (19", good stuff), PS/2 mouse, French 105-key key

Re: X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas (2000-09-08 12:14:10 +0200) : > Other problem (bigger): once I find that I have to run XFree86, do > some stuff (mainly work :-), then I quit. Supposedly I should find my > good ole console again, huh? Well, I do, but the screen keeps black. > I can use the console if I know what t

X ate my console + some other glitches

2000-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
Hi all, Encouraged by the transition from phase1 to phase2, I decided to switch to Xfree86 4.0.1. Okay, so I twitched my sources.list file, and here goes. My hardware is this: video card is a Riva TNT2 with 32 Mb RAM, monitor is a Dell P991 (19", good stuff), PS/2 mouse, French 105-key ke