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
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?
Thanks, Terry
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