"Cleary, Mike" wrote:
Well, as a matter of fact......:) I sent this to support yesterday.
SYSTEM INFO: SuSE 7.1 XFree86 4.02-5 (update from SuSE site) KDE 2.01 AMD K6-2 500 mHz 256 MB SDRAM Jaton GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP (using drivers included w/ 7.1) Using stock kernels - mostly booting 2.4
This was a clean install of 7.1, not an upgrade. The only thing which has been updated since the install was Xfree86 4.02-5 which was installed using the rpm from the SuSE ftp site.
In general it was a flawless install, and everything seems to work fine. EXCEPT for........
I boot into ASCII mode and then use "startx" to go into KDE. On frequent occasions when I log out of KDE, when I am returned to the console, all of the text on the screen is just symbols, with a few readable characters. I do sometimes see LF (line feed?) and CR (carriage return?) characters on the screen. I can type commands and they will be executed, but I can't read them! If I enter ctl + alt + F2 I can go login to another console screen which looks normal. But of course if I startx from that console, and then log out, I get garbage on that console too.
I knew this sort of problem after "cat"ing the wrong (binary) file to stdout. typing "reset" in the console will cure that. Odd, that this happens after quitting X. I have, however seen this happening I think with a weird video card I do not remember. ;-( Reason was -according to the SDB- the video mode setting in graphics mode. Did use "to much" (also the was suffucient) memory. Try another video mode with lesser RAM usage and see what happens. Juergen
This seems to happen if I have been in KDE for some period of time (more than just a few minutes). If I boot the machine, start KDE, then immediately log out, the console looks normal.
This is EXTREMELY annoying to say the least! Any assistance with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
{UPDATE 3/2/01: I installed KDE 2.1 last night, and did not run into the problem. However, that may have been chance, since the problem does not ALWAYS occur.}
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