Re: ViRGE of Catastrophe.

[mwb <blunier@concentric.net>]

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Tesla Coil wrote:

> 
> Just upgraded from Xfree86 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 patch 2--despite this,
> an ongoing problem with the SVGA server in combination with
> an S3 ViRGE/DX card.  After X sessions in excess of 8-bit color,
> it's a toss-up whether terminal mode will be legible upon exit.
> Characters may appear more or less decayed, or replaced by others.
> When this is encountered, each character, however it may be
> corrupted, is identically corrupted in each occurence on the screen.
> "shutdown -r now" may not display as "shutdown -r now," but
> fortunately the system still recognizes the command.
> 
Many dists used to have the restorefont command.  On one of my
systems with a generic card, every time I exited X, the text
was messed up.  I ran a script that saved the font, started X,
then on exit, it restored the font.

Mark
blunier@concentric.net


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