Re: [expert] S3 Virge / GX and Mandrake 6.0

[Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

I have an #9 Revolution 3D AGP video card and have the same type of
problem. The I128 x-server garbles the text mode. Reboot fixes it.

I've e-mailed the author, and he says it's a known bug, so far I haven't
found anything to fix it besides a reboot.
To cope, I:
1) Stay in X all the time! (not TOO hard...)
2) memorize where important commands are when you do need to be outside of
x.
(ie  cd /usr/local/3Dfx/bin/; test3Dfx to restore 3Dfx card...)

Jay

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:

> I have an S3 Virge / GX PCI video card. Whenever I go into
> GUI mode and then exit back to console mode, to get a
> useable screen I have to reboot. Switching to another
> virtual console doesn't help. The text doesn't get cleared
> away, and it's oversized as well. This makes it nearly
> impossible to view the current text.
> Also, Mandrake doesn't seem to like the SMP Pentium Pro. My
> tech says that the SMP kernel doesn't work well with my
> hard drive (an old Seagate / Conner 850 MB IDE)
> 
> Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
>