Re: AOpen video card question
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an
> 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried
> autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In
> almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows
> to a console, the text on the console was scrambled and stayed that way. I
> had to type "blind" in order to shut down the machine as the console
> wouldn't echo properly, and that was the only way the console would fix.
> Only if I showed it as a generic VGA with under the VGA_16 server would it
> sorta work.
>
> It appears as though if the system finds out what kind of card this really
> is, the card thrashes video memory. Only if I run it at its lowest
> capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward
> at the sides.
>
> This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond
> Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up?
There is nothing wrong with what you're doing with that video card; I have
have two myself, and have the same problem. I haven't found a workaround.
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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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