My issue is a bit different. Instead of the X server being dark or
shaded, the console is progessively darker (solaris is black txt on white
bckgrnd). I've also experienced your problem (after setting vesa modes in
lilo i.e. vga=791).
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:44:09 +1000 "George Petri" wrote:
> Hmm, isn't this interesting. I made a post about this problem a long time
> ago (newbie list) concerning also an NVIDIA -- 128 ZX, with XFree 4.0.3
> (in Mandrake 7.2). No one ever responded with a good answer!
>
> I've found that if you start your computer up in a non-framebuffer mode
> (i.e. "vga=normal" in /etc/lilo.conf), this doesn't happen. But I do
> not like this
> hack and hopefully someone else on this list knows how the fix this
> problem
> properly.
>
> So please, does *anyone* know why this happens?
>
> Thankyou as well,
> George
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "deadice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:55 AM
> Subject: [Xpert]XF 4.1.0 / Solaris 8 - Console darkens
>
>
> > Each time an X server is started/restarted, the console becomes darker
> > until text/background is completely black. Current setup:
> >
> > XFree86 4.1.0
> > NVIDIA Geforce 2 GTS DDR 64mb AGP
> > Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)
> >
> > What could be causing this? How can this be prevented?
> >
> > <deadice>
> >
>
>
>
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