Hmmmm... Today I switched to Blackbox as my window manager... the red screen 
is still there, but the characters are no longer messed up. Funny that twm 
would do that. oh well, twm IS nasty :-)
>===== Original Message From David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com> =====
>I get this on a Radeon 7000 whenever I exit the Xserver and drop into the
>console.  I'm sure it has to do with the ATI drivers messing around with
>the VGA colorspace, leaving droppings here and there.
>
>It's a minor inconvenience, as I find I can still work in the console;
>staring at the brilliant red tends to make me want to tear the wings off
>flies after a while, though.
>
>I recall that some of the NetBSD-amiga Xservers did much the same back in
>the mid-90's.
>
>Dave
>
>Stefan Edwards wrote:
>> Just a quick question. I was messing around with X and I got it working 
with a
>> ATI RAGE II + DVD. Looks great... but when I exit out of X, the console 
screen
>> is red, with very cool looking distortions of the normal character set. Any
>> ideas on the tweaks for this (besides leaving X running all the time...)?
>> Thanks in advanced.
>>  -- Stefan
>>
>> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are krunchy and taste good 
with ketchup.
>>   -- Anonymous (I saw this on an OpenBSD list, if you own it, claim it).
>>
>>

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are krunchy and taste good with ketchup.
  -- Anonymous (I saw this on an OpenBSD list, if you own it, claim it).