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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:52:22 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Horen <horen@ny-myth.com>, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree
Message-ID:  <20021108105221.GF46686@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <3DCB0D16.98DB875B@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021107194748.X2788-100000@salome.ny-myth.com> <3DCB0D16.98DB875B@mindspring.com>

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:02:14PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Horen wrote:
> > > You stated "Typing blind starts X again".
> > >
> > > Can you tell us what you mean by this?
> > >
> > > o     It restarts X, as if you typed "startx"
> > 
> > Exactly that.
> 
> The problem is clearly in the X11 code, then, since it is not
> resetting the card to the video mode it was in before X started.
> 
> You would do well to look at the XFree86 mailing list archives,
> since your answer is likely to be there (this is not a FreeBSD
> specific problem, if it is not happening because of FreeBSD
> specific code).
> 
> The only possible way this could be a FreeBSD specific problem
> is if you were using, e.g., the AGP driver, and it wasn't working.

I have exactly the same problem with 2 Millenium cards on an HX
chipset board (Socket 7) - no AGP.
But my XFree is rather old 4.2.0_1,1 from 16th Jun and I also prefer
not to restart my xsessions so I never mentioned.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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