Date: 8 May 2002 19:02:14 -0000 From: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/37863: Configuration of X corrupts screen, and install lacks wrapper. Message-ID: <20020508190214.19050.qmail@labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca>
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>Number: 37863 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Configuration of X corrupts screen, and install lacks wrapper. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 08 12:10:04 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ashley Penney >Release: FreeBSD 4.6 snapshots. >Organization: Not much. >Environment: >Description: During installation of the 4.6 snapshots, my console was corrupted upon exiting the X configuration (xf86cfg). I was forced to run vidcontrol 80x25 to fix it afterwards. It's unlikely that the problem could be diagnosed in time, and patched, and so forth, so a workaround would be to simply call 'vidcontrol 80x25' after running the X server, to repair the broken console. [I have an Nvidia Geforce3 card, so this may be required to repeat this.] Also, after the installation was done, I noted that 'wrapper' had not been installed. I run X by the old fashioned 'startx', and this will fail post installation. This should be added to the list of installed packages, when X is selected in the installation. >How-To-Repeat: Install X from the 4.6 snapshots from snapshots.jp.freebsd.org, attempt to configure X via the xf86cfg option. Also, simply try to start X once the installation is finished. >Fix: Add wrapper to the package list. Call 'vidcontrol 80x25' after X configuration (on i386, at least). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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