Re: What part of X causes major display problems?
On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I
> changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted
> of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1
> pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black
> horizontal lines running across it. Only the highlighted edges of the login
> box appeared. No mouse cursor or text is visible on the screen. This
> continued after rebooting, but the colours of the lines sometimes changes
> after rebooting.
If I am imagining your screen correct;ly, this sounds to me like you have
configured X to use the wrong driver for your graphics card. I had a similar
problem when I first set up X for the very first time.
Try using xf86config, of xf86cfg to reconfigure X, and see what happens.
>
> When Ctrl+Alt+Bksp is pushed, I see tty1 for a moment, the screen goes
> black, then, a few seconds later, the screen goes back the way it was. It
> is possible to login and out when the screen is like this, the cursor is
> visible as 2 short horizontal lines with a width of 1 pixel.
This sounds like X just closing down back to text mode, then restarting,
which is what it's supposed to do when you press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp. It's normal
behaviour, except for the problem that you already described.
Jason Wood
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