On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 @ 7:49pm (-0000), poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I searched the list, and found a similar problem from someone having a
> black on black terminal...
>
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0
>
> http://poff.sixbit.org/netbsd has a load of my logs and configurations for
> X...



...this problem is old as sin, and no one seems to be able to fix it, and
none of the wscons fixes ever make it back to the xfree86.org tree; normally
it happens with the 'nv' driver.  Happens to to my geforce all the time.

-lava

>
> I didn't see any solutions to this from the other posts, something about
> changing from 80x50 to 80x25 => how would I do this and would it help?
> (I'm a n00b)
>
> I tryed "reset" and posting a weird string of stuff someone else
> suggested, but to no avail :(
>
> Any ideas? It's the same if I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or similar during my x
> session.
>
> Thanks,
>
> poff@sixbit.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>

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