Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:55:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Simon Tsai <tsai@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen corrupted AFTER exiting X (Trident Cyber9385 (2mb ram)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970403225345.464i-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33428244.807@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Simon Tsai wrote: > Dear FreeBSD: > > Thanks for the cool work for supporting Trident Cyber 9385 chipset. It > is worth waiting for. You should be thanking the XFree86 people, they did that work. > Question: > I wonder why my screen got corrupted every time after I exited X ( > things are fine in X). The options for no pci burst read/write were > included in the device section, and the Chipset "cyber938x" was also > added. > > After I exited X, I see random letters scattered all over the screen and > the prompt disappears. Input from keyboard can still be taken but I > just could not see what I typed. Are there other options should be > inlcuded? Your video memory is being corrupted. There isn't much we can do for you other than blindly type 'clear' and hit enter to clear the screen. That might do something for you. Or try vidcontrol VGA_80x25 You should contact xfree86@xfree86.org regarding this problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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