On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I > changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted > of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 > pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black > horizontal lines running across it. Only the highlighted edges of the login > box appeared. No mouse cursor or text is visible on the screen. This > continued after rebooting, but the colours of the lines sometimes changes > after rebooting.
If I am imagining your screen correct;ly, this sounds to me like you have configured X to use the wrong driver for your graphics card. I had a similar problem when I first set up X for the very first time. Try using xf86config, of xf86cfg to reconfigure X, and see what happens. > > When Ctrl+Alt+Bksp is pushed, I see tty1 for a moment, the screen goes > black, then, a few seconds later, the screen goes back the way it was. It > is possible to login and out when the screen is like this, the cursor is > visible as 2 short horizontal lines with a width of 1 pixel. This sounds like X just closing down back to text mode, then restarting, which is what it's supposed to do when you press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp. It's normal behaviour, except for the problem that you already described. Jason Wood
