Re: X exits into unreadable screen

[Brian Stults <bstults@soc.ufl.edu>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults (bstults@soc.ufl.edu) wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
> > screen that comes up is unreadable.  It is a black screen with lots of 
> > vertical white lines of varying width.  When I type, it just produces 
> > more verticle white lines where the text should be.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
> Sounds like a bad graphics card and/or configuration.
>
> What's your hardware?  Probably want to post your XF86Config file
> (appropriate version if you're running XF86v4), might look through your
> X server logs as well.

I've included my XF86Config below.  This is happening for me and for a 
friend of mine, and we both have different video cards and monitors.  It 
started for both of us about 3-4 weeks ago.  It probably started after 
an upgrade of the X packages because neither of us have changed our 
hardware or XF86Config recently.  I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro II AGP with 
a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron monitor.



Section "Module"
    Load       "dbe"
    SubSection "extmod"
     # Option   "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load       "type1"
    Load       "freetype"
    Load       "speedo"
    Load       "extmod"
    Load       "xie"
    Load       "pex5"
    Load       "glx"
    Load       "dri"
    Load       "GLcore"
    Load       "dbe"
    Load       "record"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
     Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Files"
    RgbPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttype"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "Keyboard"
    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   30-96
    VertRefresh   50-140
    Modeline "1152x864"    108.00   1152 1164 1292 1504    864  865 
868  908
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Standard VGA"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"
    Driver     "vga"
    Option "BackingStore" "On"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Rage 128 Pro"
    Driver      "r128"
    ChipId      0x5246
    VideoRam    16384
    Option      "AGPMode" "2"
    Option      "DPMS"
    Option "BackingStore" "On"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen1"
    Device      "ATI Rage 128 Pro"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" # 
"1280x1024"
#        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection



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Brian J. Stults
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