On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, John Dalbec wrote:
> 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 > Well, I went through about ten different configurations. In some cases, yes, in other cases no. And I didn't save all the config files, so I can't say which did and didn't probe. Paul Foster
