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 <enter> 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
