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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:34:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Christian Busquet <cbusquet@hol.fr>
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Subject: Re: Problem with X,OAK and text mode
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Christian Busquet wrote:

> Hi all on this list.
> 
> I'have succesfully Installed FreeBsd 2.2.5-RELEASE on my 386SX33
> with 16 Meg RAM and an OAK OTI-067 SVGA CARD(1 Meg RAM)
> 
> I run X with success.
> 
> but when i go back to text mode my screen lost all horizontal synchro
> ( i can't read nothing :-( )
> 
> if i type startx and <RETURN> (blindly) X run again perfectly
> if i switch from X to Text Mode the screen is also Bad but
> when i go back to X the screen is perfect.
> 
> It seems that XFREE Kill my text mode synchro ;-)
> 
> Have you some clues, do you need some extra info ?
> (i have a try with an OAK - OTI087 and the results is the some, i've
> not another type of svga cards)

This is a constant problem that is not easily fixed in the X server.  Try
running the command `vidcontrol VGA_80x25' after the X server exits.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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