Re: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on Dell Inspiron 8500

[Raymond Jennings]

That's funny, I had the same problem, only I have a Diamond Stealth II S220 
and use the generic SVGA server.  Whenever I switch to text mode and 
ESPECIALLY if I had a virtual resolution, it seems as if the video card 
isn't beginning the text scans at the right place, it's as if someone 
"scrolled" the text display over to the right by a character, and this is 
confusing because the cursor is correctly placed.  If I type a few 
characters the text mode display jumps back to where it should have been in 
the first place.

Whatever code is responsible for restoring text mode is messing up big time. 
 Is this the kernel, or does the X server handle switches back to text 
mode?

Similar problems on different architectures suggest that this fault is in 
global code.


From: Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Christophe Jacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on Dell Inspiron 8500
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:07:32 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Christophe Jacquet wrote:
>
>
>  3) When I switch back from graphics mode to text mode, the text display
> is messed up: the display is not correctly centered, one pixel out of
> two remains off, and horizontal lines appear when some text is printed
> on the last line.
>
   Did it used to work?  I've never had one of these laptops myself
so I've never tested on one.
   Does hitting the "Font" key fix it up again?

			Mark.

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