Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:42:40 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 4, compaq armarda and corrupted virtual consoles Message-ID: <20010627014240.A25051@pir.net>
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I've been trying to help a friend set up FreeBSD 4.3-R and XFree86-4 (latest package) on his compaq armarda 4xxx (?) series laptop. The graphics chipset is an S3 virge MX, and we have X running ok but when it starts it corrupts the textmode consoles. There is a comment about this in the XFree86 mailing lists, dated back to 4.0.1, but with no fix and Linux with XFree86 4.x.x apparently does not have this problem. Before I spend hours trying to work out what is going on has anyone seen this, or as a workaround is there a good way to reset the graphics hardware so the text console can be used again ? As a side note, this machine needed the pcic0 memory shifting up to 0xd4000 to stop it hanging on pcmcia inserts, but pcmcia seems to work fine after that. Thanks, P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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