RE: [SLE] Console Trashed on exiting from X

-----Original Message----- From: Terry Eck [mailto:eck@raytheon.com] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:38 PM To: Mearl Danner Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Console Trashed on exiting from X

Thanks for the reply. AFAIK this is a one time occurance. Hopefully it will not happen again. I just HATE rebooting. If it happens again I'll have to note what programs I ran while in X. Also, AFAIK I'm using whatever is standard for the text display (VC1).

If I understand you correctly, when I exit the Xserver it has to restore the video registers. Is this what happens when I switch from X using ctrl-alt-F1? A couple of months ago I was running with kdm for graphical login. Had been up for over a week. When I wanted to play Quake II I did a ctrl-alt-F1 and to my horror the VC1 was trashed. I've not used kdm since then.

I don't know if this is the same issue but there is a problem between X and the Matrox framebuffer module, matroxfb. Your console will be trashed when exiting from X but a simple alt-F2, alt-F1 always works for me. Also, I have never had a problem directly related to kdm. Greg

Terry

Mearl Danner wrote:

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It happened to me when I used svgatextmode to select a text display other than the standard VESA modes allowed by my Matrox Mystique (uses SVGA server, too). It seems the Xserver sometimes can't restore the video registers properly.

When I went back to standard displays, the problem went away.

If it's an intermittent (or one time only) problem, some app probably overwrote the memory location that stores the VC1 video settings.

On Fri, 26 May 2000 23:51:27 -0500 Terry Eck wrote:

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Hello,

This is the first time I've seen this happen. I normaly logon VC1 and enter X via the startx command. Last night when I was finished using KDE and exited to the VC the display was trashed. By this I mean there were vertical white and black lines over the entire screen. I could not make out any of the information displayed on the screen. Tried Alt-F2, same problem. Tried "reset", no help. I went back into X and everything appeared normal. Exit X to the VC and display trashed. I finally shutdown and rebooted.

Has anyone seen this happen before?

Video Card is Matrix Millinum II. X-server is default from SuSE 6.3 using SVGA.

Any idea what happened?

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