On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:27, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > I am thrilled to report that with 2.4.20-ben10 rsynced this evening I > can quit X and get the console back, or switch between X and virtual > consoles, thanks apparently to the "major rivafb updates from Paul > Richards & others". > > I'll try to find out on my own why this is, but now the console has > problems: it boots up into what looks like 800x600 or possibly even > 640x480 (80x24 characters) centered on the screen, and it can't really > handle text properly -- certainly not ncurses applications, but even > "reset" and "clear" and ^L don't clean it up, so it's unusable. > > But I'm happy to be able to quit X, now.
Interesting. This is a GeForce4 MX, right ? It should be 640x480 but maybe something is still wrong in the driver... Ben.
