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Subject: Re: XF86 not properly resetting text console scan frequency 
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In message <15132.61331.344021.262297@onceler.kciLink.com>, Vivek Khera 
writes:
> Yesterday, I got the urge to update my XF86 install on my
> workstation.  I had been running the original XF86 installed by the
> 4.1-RELEASE CD-ROM.  The system istelf has been kept up with 4-STABLE
> over time.
> 
> The X server runs just fine; I didn't change any configurations for
> it.  However, when I either exit X, or CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to the
> primary text console, the text mode switches, but then the monitor
> reports invalid scan frequency, and the text is smeared horizontally
> across the screen, flickering and scrolling upwards.
> 
> I'm using the XF86_Mach64 server, as I was before.

Are you sure?  Whenever I had this problem under XF86 3.3.6, X -> 
XF86_SVGA.

> 
> Has something changed?  Could it be a compiler bug?  My make.conf has
> CPU type set to p3.



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Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
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Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
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