Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X
I'm sorry if a similar message has appeared before. It seemed not to have
gone through.
I recently installed Debian 2.0 on my Pentium 233 MMX with 64 MB SDRAM, with
an S3d ViRGE/DX 375 VGA card with 4 MB DRAM and a Samsung SyncMaster 4Ne
monitor (though I don't think the monitor has anything to do with it).
I installed XFree86, running the SVGA server in S3 ViRGE mode, with no options,
at 1024x768 resolution, 24 bpp. Sometimes when I switch from X to a virtual
console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, the virtual console starts substituting some
characters for others. This happens on all the virtual consoles, not just
the one I first switched to. I have tried "tset" and "reset", to no effect.
The only solution is to reboot. For example, the sentence "the quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog" looks like "$he !%ick b"o'n fo( j%m # o&e" $he
la*) dog". They are all printable ASCII characters from the same font. It
seems that the text-mode display of the video card is messed up. Can
anyone help me?
ADVthanksANCE
Ruchira Datta
datta@math.berkeley.edu
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