I also have an STB nitro 3d card but I am using the SVGA server and it does the
same stuff . I am running 1.4 with stock X as well . This has not caused any
trouble for me except 'seeing' it every time I exit X. It will be fixed , its
just a matter of when ... 


cheers ..

Tony Hernandez

On 25-Jun-99 Richard Rauch wrote:
> (This replies to two threads: One from June 14, the other from June 16
> through the 23rd (so far).)
> 
> I, too, have noise on my ASCII (wscons) console when I exit the stock X
> server for v1.4.
> 
> I am using the XF86_S3V for my STB Nitro 3D (ViRGE/GX) card.  (Manuel
> recommended the S3 driver helped with the card S3-968 basedd card that
> Brian was using.)
> 
> 
> I, however, have a new twist to offer:
> 
> Sometimes (NOT everytime), garbage characters seem to be stuffed into the
> wscons input stream.  I can erase them with backspace or ^U.  If I don't
> erase them, they will cause the first post-X command to be garbled.
> 
> I did not experience this with either of the previous NetBSD versions that
> I ran (v1.3 and v1.3.3---same card and the respective S3V servers).  Under
> v1.3*, I used the default console handler.  Under v1.4, I also use the
> default (which is, of course, wscons now).
> 
> I get the display noise consistantly, everytime that I exit.  It does not
> matter whether I quit X by using <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace> or if I quit by
> killing the last program started by xinitrc (in this case, an XTerm).
> 
> Since the noise on the input stream is not consistant, I don't know if it
> might be affected by how I quit X.
> 
> 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu

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