Weird problem when switching to text mode

[Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean_seb@videotron.ca>]

Hello,

I have an Alpha XL 366 and I'm having a weird problem (if it were a 
"non-weird problem", I probably wouldn't have to ask for advice here!).

When booting up, I can see the messages on my screen just fine. The 
display is in text mode, and I can see everything starting up. Then kdm 
starts, and I have a graphical login (which is what I want, most of the 
time). But from that point on, anytime the system switches to text mode 
(either because I press CTRL-ALT-F1, or because I'm shutting down the 
system), my monitor displays the message "H.V FREQUENCY OVER RANGE", and 
I can't see anything. I didn't think it was possible to have a frequency 
my monitor doesn't support in *text mode*... Normally, text mode is the 
lowest common denominator, and it's a fixed refresh rate that all 
monitors support...

Is there something in my XF86Config-4 that might help with this problem? 
I'll include it here. I just checked the horizontal and vertical 
frequencies I put in that file against the monitor's specs, and they're 
exactly the same...

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "ViewSonic P95f+"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 110.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

       ### Available Driver options are:-
       ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
       ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
       ### [arg]: arg optional
       #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "PciRetry"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "SyncOnGreen"        	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "Overlay"            	# [<str>]
       #Option     "MGASDRAM"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
       #Option     "SetMclk"            	# <freq>
       #Option     "OverclockMem"       	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
       #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
       #Option     "TexturedVideo"      	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "Crtc2Half"          	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "Crtc2Ram"           	# <i>
       #Option     "Int10"              	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "AGPMode"            	# <i>
       #Option     "AGPSize"            	# <i>
       #Option     "DigitalScreen1"     	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "DigitalScreen2"     	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "TV"                 	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "TVStandard"         	# [<str>]
       #Option     "CableType"          	# [<str>]
       #Option     "NoHal"              	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "SwappedHead"        	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "MergedFB"           	# [<bool>]
       #Option     "Monitor2HSync"      	# [<str>]
       #Option     "Monitor2VRefresh"   	# [<str>]
       #Option     "Monitor2Position"   	# [<str>]
       #Option     "MetaModes"          	# [<str>]
	Identifier  "Matrox Mystique"
	Driver      "mga"
	VendorName  "Matrox Graphics, Inc."
	BoardName   "MGA 1064SG [Mystique]"
	ChipSet     "mga1064sg"
	BusID       "PCI:0:7:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Matrox Mystique"
	Monitor    "ViewSonic P95f+"
	DefaultDepth 16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     1
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     4
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
EndSection
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If anyone has any idea of what is causing this problem, I'd very much 
like to get it solved...

Thanks in advance,

J-S

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Jean-Sébastien Guay   jean_seb@videoton.ca
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