On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:26:42 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Thompson wrote: > > >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:54:22 -0700 > >Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Starting a new thread which may or may not be the same problem as the > >>others had with virtual terminals. On one of three machines that I > >>switched to xorg when I go to a virtual terminal I get a text mode > >>screen with various colored stripes and no readable characters. I can > >>tell that the VT's are actually working. I can log in but the screen is > >>unreadable (because of all the unwanted ANSI escape codes?). reset > >>doesn't help. > >> > >>I am running the latest xorg packages and have done dpkg-reconfigure > >>xserver-xorg > >> > >>Any ideas? > >> > >> > >> > > > >It sounds more like a video driver issue that the XKB trouble we were > >discussing earlier. Have you tried using a frame buffer setting > >like VESA for your driver? > > > > > I guess I don't really understand how this is working. I switched the > video driver to VESA instead of s3/virge which is the correct one and > the one I used with Xfree86. This did solve the VT problem. If this is > what you me can you refer me to something to read to understand how this > works? > > I still have to change the mouse protocol to ImPs/2 each time I > dpkg-reconfigure since it gets set to Imtellimouse with presenting me > the opportunity to change it to ImPS/2 during the dpkg-reconfigure. Do > I need to temporarily change the mouse to /dev/psaux instead of > /dev/gpmdata to change the protocol? Possibly if you remove the mdetect package which allows for autodetecting the mouse, it will ask you manually to give the information. > > Thanks, Paul > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
