Re: Gibberish on switching X to console
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone
> pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I
> frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or
> ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to reboot,
That happens with some combinations of video cards and X servers. For
example:
* Matrox G200 AGP with XF86_SVGA -> no problem text->X and back
* S3 ViRGE with XF86_SVGA -> same problem you have
* S3 ViRGE with XF86_S3V -> no problem text->X and back
(on the S3 it might be the other way around - it's been a while since I've
tried)
Without knowing more about your computer, the only thing I can say
is: Don't do that!
Sorry.
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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