Re: xorg and virtual terminals still

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Bill Thompson wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:54:22 -0700
> Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Starting a new thread which may or may not be the same problem as the 
> > others had with virtual terminals.  On one of three machines that I 
> > switched to xorg when I go to a virtual terminal I get a text mode 
> > screen with various colored stripes and no readable characters.  I can 
> > tell that the VT's are actually working.  I can log in but the screen is 
> > unreadable (because of all the unwanted ANSI escape codes?).  reset 
> > doesn't help.
> >
> > I am running the latest xorg packages and have done dpkg-reconfigure 
> > xserver-xorg
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >    
>
> It sounds more like a video driver issue that the XKB trouble we were
> discussing earlier. Have you tried using a frame buffer setting
> like VESA for your driver?
>  
I guess I don't really understand how this is working.  I switched the 
video driver to VESA instead of s3/virge which is the correct one and 
the one I used with Xfree86.  This did solve the VT problem.  If this is 
what you me can you refer me to something to read to understand how this 
works?

I still have to change the mouse protocol to ImPs/2 each time I 
dpkg-reconfigure since it gets set to Imtellimouse with presenting me 
the opportunity to change it to ImPS/2 during the dpkg-reconfigure.  Do 
I need to temporarily change the mouse to /dev/psaux instead of 
/dev/gpmdata to change the protocol?

Thanks, Paul