mach8 server: blank screen
I've recently had reason to resurrect an old 486 computer as an X terminal. A
few years ago, this was my primary computer, and it worked well. The most
recent version of linux I ran on it was Debian 1.3, and all was well. I've
just installed Debian 2.1 on it, which has XFree86 3.3.2.3a, and now the Mach8
X server no longer seems to work. I get a blank screen. X is running, because
I can use keyboard shortcuts to terminate fvwm and return to text mode, but
while X is running, all I get is a blank screen. The VGA16 server used by
XF86Setup works fine, but who wants to work that slowly in only 16 colours?
I also tried using the XFree86 3.3.3.1 debs from netgod's site, but they give
the same problem.
Has anyone got a fix for this? I couldn't find mention of a fix in the
dejanews archives.
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