From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) Subject: X11 problems restoring text mode Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:24:30 GMT
I figured I might report this in public, though it might be that
this is already known... I installed a copy of MCC-interim Linux
at my school and also X11, but when I boot Linux using some of
the SVGA text modes, everything works ok until I exit from X,
at which time the screen gets garbled. (Seems like the monitor
can't synchronize to the card's output or something..)
With the standard 80x25 text mode everything works fine. I don't
spend much time at school, so I haven't really got much interest
to start debugging this, but the SVGA card in use is a Tseng Labs
ET4000 and the monitor is some GoldStar, can't remember exactly which.
If I can borrow one card home from school, I'll check it out closer..
Could be I've misconfigured Xconfig, too, though I doubt it, somehow
I suspect the X code has a problem with restoring the extended
SVGA text modes properly. Haven't tried the 2.0 version yet though...
Anyway, I was going to ask something else about X, too. I've
noticed an exceptionally large amount of cryptic abbreviations
like "xv", "xdvi", "tvtwm", "gwm" etc... I know some of these,
but would there happen to be a dictionary of some sort to
explain all these to a beginner, so I'd know what people are
talking about?... :-) if this interests no-one else, then how about
some X-guru emailing me a list of the most frequent abbrevs..
Or can you find this kind of stuff in some hacker jargon clone?
Thanks,
-- kennu@mits.mdata.fi