A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an > 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried > autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In > almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows > to a console, the text on the console was scrambled and stayed that way. I > had to type "blind" in order to shut down the machine as the console > wouldn't echo properly, and that was the only way the console would fix. > Only if I showed it as a generic VGA with under the VGA_16 server would it > sorta work. >
I have an Oak OTI077 that exhibits this problem if I let the SVGA server probe the clock frequencies. Do you have a "Clocks" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config? John
