From: drose@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose) Subject: Re: Strange behavior after quitting from Xfree 1.3 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 13:38:15 GMT
genie@netcom.com (Gene Choi) writes:
>Hey there,
>Has anyone noticed that terminal console mode goes off strangely
>after quitting from Xfree 1.3? I'm using an ATI GR. Plus 2 megs.
>I've used this comfortably with Xfree 1.2 without any problems
>and am using the same Xconfig file for X. 1.3.
>By strange, I mean that I get about 20 vertical bars vertically
>positioned throughtout the screen. It is completely white except
>for the black background of the console terminals. It doesn't matter
>which console I switch to. It's all the same. Of course, text doesn't
>show up at all after this. But the computer isn't "hung". I can still
>type and get things done just as long as I don't screw up long enough
>to know what I'm typing.
>The strange part is that it seems to go off in this awry mode AFTER
>I quit from XFree 1.3. Switching to a virtual console while
>running X, all text displaying is perfectly fine. It's only after I
>quit that the screen goes berzerk.
>Is this a problem people are experiencing with the ATI Gr +/pro?
>Thanks for your help.
If it helps you any, the EXACT same thing happens for me with my ATI 24B XL.
My system also worked flawless with 1.2. And the console only gets screwed up,
when I quit 1.3.
Must be something with the ATI chipset or something.
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