On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:31:46PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: > I've noticed recently that the X server doesn't seem to restore text > mode properly, if I boot using the "vga=030a" (132x43 text mode) Linux > kernel option. This video card is a Matrox G450, with XFree86 4.1.0 on > Debian "unstable" (i386). The symptom is that my monitor reports > "Invalid Scan Frequency" when I exit X (or use Ctl-Alt-Fx to switch to > a text console), and the display is of course unrecognizable. I've > checked the monitor settings in XF86Config-4, and they're all correct > according to the manual.
I've got a similar situation with an identical card and linux distro. I can repeatably freeze the console with the following procedure: startx from the console, with no window manager, only launching an xterm. log in to another virtual console as the same user you started X as, 'export DISPLAY=:0.0'; and start a window manager (actually, any X client, I think). switch back to the graphical console (should now be displaying a window manager), and kill the xterm (ctrl-d). switch to the virtual console where I started the window manager, and kill the window manager. at this point the console hangs; displaying a blank (tho not dark) screen. attempting to switch to any virtual console results in the rendering of a series of short, vertical (mostly red & green) lines at the top of the screen. machine is still active, and I can SSH in Greg, can you try doing this, and see if it happens on your machine as well? It doesn't happen to me if I don't load the DRI stuff. I've tested this with kernel 2.4.9-ac3, 2.4.14, and 2.4.16. I don't have framebuffer support in my kernel; as someone on #dri suggested removing it to see if it fixes another DRI lockup problem (after playing Half-Life [under wine] or Rune [from loki] for some time, the screen will hang). I actually never got console framebuffer working with my G450... hung every time, with the early 2.4 kernels I tried. I submitted a lengthy and detailed bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; is it appropriate to repost it here? (I'm new to this list). Care Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
