Re: xorg and virtual terminals still
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:26:42 -0700
Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> 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?
Possibly if you remove the mdetect package which allows for autodetecting the
mouse, it will ask you manually to give the information.
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
>
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