Subject: Re: X11 + 80x50 screens + NVidia TNT = black screen?
To: Bjoern Labitzke <Bjoern.Labitzke@t-online.de>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: tech-x11
Date: 05/17/2002 13:21:24
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:16:43PM +0200, Bjoern Labitzke wrote:
> * Matthias Scheler (tron@zhadum.de) Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:18:32AM +0000:
> > Bjoern.Labitzke@t-online.de (Bjoern Labitzke) writes:
> > > [Black on black on 80x50 terminal after using X11, but fine on
> > >  80x25] 
> > I definitely made bug fixes to XFree86 after that point of time. You
> > should rebuild "xsrc" and see if the problem persists.
> 
> I recompiled X11 two days ago and the problem persists.

It looks like the server fails to restore paletter or the video mode properly.

> Sounds like a PR is needed...

A PR will probably not help. I'm not aware of any experts on VGA voodoo magic
in the NetBSD project - that is one of the reasons why we use XFree86. It
would be more helpful if you submit a bug to the XFree86 people.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/