On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine > to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X > works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed > (misc. characters, garbage, and general bad mood) reset does not work > and all virtual tty are trashed. The video board is a STB Systems w/ > an advanced logic chipset alg2301 1024 ram. STB's website was rather > useless mostly windows crap the only thing I saw that might be of > interest was the need to have a memory exclusion, but I don't know > how to do that under linux.
I have a 486 with an Avance card that uses this chip, and it had the same problem. The garbage that you see is actually a translation, something like abcdefgh -> bcdefg0h, so you can actually "read" it. The workaround I used was to leave at least one VC logged in and type "setfont default8x16" whenever I needed a VC, and the same when quitting X. I never found any documentation for memory exclusion, but perhaps it's in the X sources. I now use the machine as a laboratory winlose playground. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
