I have a Voodoo 3 and can see a similar problem when starting an application using OpenGL and changing resolution. This application is Terminus, it switches very often the resolution between 640x480 and the desktop default. When the application has uploaded its textures for OpenGL, the text consoles disappear and show artifacts of the X Server screen.
But this does not happen if the default resolution of the desktop is 640x480, i.e. no resolution changes happen. And it does not happen if all if all text consoles are vga based, i.e. no framebuffer is used for some fancy background images. I'm using SuSE 7.3 (it shows the SuSE logo on the first console by default) and XFree86 4.1.0. Unfortunately I haven't found an open source application, with that the problem could be reproduced. Detlef Manuel McLure wrote: >I have been having a problem with the tdfx server in 4.1.0 (and with the >server in the latest DRI trunk) - on occasion changing the resolution >(either through Ctrl+Alt++/- or through some app changing the resolution) >causes the server to crash. This is an occasional occurrence, and I have >found it impossible to reproduce this when I want to. XFree86.0.log shows >nothing. After the crash the text console or the framebuffer >console )whichever I am using) will be corrupted and I need to reboot to fix >them, although X will restart and display correctly (and probably will *not* >crash again if I change resolutions). Other than occasionally crashing when >changing resolutions, I find the server rock-solid. > >This is on Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2, with the Red Hat RPMs or my own >built-from-scratch 4.1.0 or DRI trunk. Hardware is a Voodoo 5 5500 on an MSI >K7T Turbo-R (VIA KT133A chipset) with an Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz. > >Anyone have any ideas - at least some way I can get more information from >the next crash to send to the list. >Thanks! >-- >Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW | ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | and significant law, no man may kill a cat. ><http://www.mclure.org> | -- H.P. Lovecraft > > >_______________________________________________ >Xpert mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
