On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:28:45AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:20:12PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > The laptop has an S3ViRGE/MX video chip, but the proper s3virge driver isn't > > quite working properly (under XFree86 v4). It tends to lock up when exiting > > from X back to console. So I'm using the generic vesa driver instead for > > the time being. The mouse works fine as /dev/psaux or whatever it is. > > Use a framebuffer kernel. Then your consoles are also in graphics mode > and the S3VIRGE family don't mangle out on you. >
Intruiging suggestion. I didn't think framebuffers worked just like that , I thought it required some special kind of hardware. I might try it :) Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
