something else came to mind, have you tried putting in the int10 module for X? That will try to softboot the video card instead of let the X drivers do it. On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 06:53, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > Gyula Lukacs wrote on Thu Mar 21, 2002 um 01:13:39PM: > > > works fine and I see only garbage on the screen, can't swith to console > > back anymore. It happens in 10% on my nVidia Riva TNT 16MB card (Diamond > > Viper 550), with Intel 440BX chipset, 2.4.18, with & without the most > > recent nVidia drivers, xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-14 (and with every X > > 4.x.x). > > I have a similar problem with my (cheap) Geforce-2MX card. From time to > time, in most cases if a second X server is running, or another > application using Overlay runs in backround, and I go to full-screen in > Mplayer, then after changing back to windows mode, everything is really > broken. I can still see the window of Mplayer somewhere on the screen, > but everything around it is screewed up, I see random shadows in the > color of my other windows. Everything works, I can close all > applications blindly, and shutdown the X-Server. I get my usuall text > console. BUT: When I run the X-Server again, I get the same screewed > picture of "shadows", only the mouse pointer looks okay. And if I > shutdown the X-Server this time, I get only a black picture unless I > restart the machine. > > Gruss/Regards, > Eduard. > -- > And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports > on it, you know they are just evil lies." > (By Linus Torvalds, Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: mailto:djw@flinthills.com * * Home Page: http://www.flinthills.com/~djw/ * *** "...and on the eighth day, God met Bill Gates." - Unknown **
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