Subject: Re: Couple of problems with Xorg server
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/08/2005 09:48:06
On Friday 08 April 2005 06:07, Juan RP wrote:
> Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Well I'll try it in my morning but while I suspect that we will need to
> > fix the palette restauration for the radeon (as was done for Xfree86)
> > this is not the problem I'm seeing as I'm not getting that far.  Its not
> > that I'm switching to the text console and that its very dim - its that
> > I'm apparently not switching at all.  This is with X300 and also i865.

OK, looks like the not switching at all problem was related to the xkb one, as 
its now working (It presumably hadn't worked out I was typing 
<CNTL>-<ALT>-<F1>)  - so now I'm up to the palette resaturation issue.

> FreeBSD/ports has 2 patches for ATI (ports/x11-servers/xorg-server),
> maybe we could try them?

Will take a look shortly.

cheers
mark