Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-16 Thread gabe f
oh yeah, got the source for svgatextmode, but haven't tried it yet, though sounds promising. On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: gabe-- It's a shot it the dark, but...check to see if your kernel has Radeon display support enabled. I encountered the same symptoms

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-15 Thread Rich Johnson
gabe-- It's a shot it the dark, but...check to see if your kernel has Radeon display support enabled. I encountered the same symptoms running a distribution kernel (Debian Woody) with a FireGL 1000 Pro Card. In my case all the virtual consoles went away when _entering_ X with startx. But

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-15 Thread gabe f
Well, it was working with the ati driver in 4.2.x that came with OpenBSD 3.2 (should have mentioned the OS). Thanks, though. Actually, the only reason I went to the trouble of installing 4.3.0 was to fix this ghosting/blurring/echoing artifact, which had nothing to do with the drivers - it was

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-14 Thread gabe f
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Andy Goth wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. reset

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:13:58PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen.

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-14 Thread Andy Goth
On Monday, July 14, 2003 11:03 am, Pigeon wrote: Unfortunately, SVGATextMode doesn't support the Radeon 7500. (Yet. I'm trying to hack it, but don't expect results any time soon :-) ) It supports generic VGA mode. That's what I have it for---resetting my screen when I really, really need it.

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-13 Thread Jarmo Paavilainen
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

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-13 Thread gabe f
reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 04:46 AM, Jarmo Paavilainen wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 01:39, gabe f wrote: I'm

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-13 Thread Andy Goth
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. reset only attempts to clear your terminal and set it to

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-12 Thread gabe f
I'm reposting this - no one knows what this is? 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

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-11 Thread gabe f
also, I'm not using linux, 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

[XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
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

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Thompson
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

Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
I disabled dbe, but I can still just barely read the text when back in terminal mode. 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