Re: Alt-F7... Me Too! --solved!

[thomas kral <thomas.kral@centrum.cz>]

Good news Andy,

let me just post it to debian-user so as to share
it with the list.

Thanks.
Thomas

Dne 2002.09.02 15:48 napsal Andrew Zajac:
> I have found a solution to the problem.
> 
> I had tried reconfiguring X.
> 
> I had tried recompiling my kernel several time without
> any luck.
> 
> I then updated Xfree86 to version 4.2 and it works
> beautifully.  Apparently, there is (was) a known bug
> which blanks the screen when using various video
> cards.
> 
> Anyway, I am using the experimental debian version of
> xfree4.2 which is a little slow since it contains a
> lot of debugging code.  I am going to reinstall it
> from the binaries on the xfree website.  I'll have to
> purge the debian packages, though...
> 
> I am optimistic that this will work very well.  I had
> run Mandrake Linux 8.3 which uses XF 4.2 as well, I
> tried out Slackware 8.1 which uses the same version
> and both were fine.  I also tried another distribution
> which did not use 4.2 (Peanut linux - xfree86 4.1) and
> the same problem occurred.
> 
> Anyway, good luck.
> 
> BTW: My computer seemed to run faster using xf 4.2 on
> slackware (compared to debian with xf 4.1)  I have the
> impression that XF 4.2 runs faster than 4.1... 
> 
> Andy