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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: WEIRD ATI video problem with X386
- Message-ID: <FBcswB2w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 00:12:26 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- This one isn't the usual problem, if I've been reading the posts I've seen
- so far correctly. This is an ATI Graphics Vantage.
-
- X386mono works. (Well, it would work if I ever get the kernel to recognize
- my bus mouse. See my earlier posts.) The color server I configured to come
- up in 640x480 mode just to test it out, using the example ATI Xconfig from
- ftp.cs.unc.edu. It does have a small sync problem for some reason, but I
- can fiddle with that later; there's something more serious wrong.
-
- The problem is that only about 1/4 of the screen is correct. If you divide
- the display up into a bunch of small blocks (roughly character-sized, were
- it a text mode screen) the top-left quarter of the block is correct; the
- top-right quarter is solid white and the bottom half is black. Worse, when
- I exit X (ctrl-alt-backspace) the screen switches back to text mode but only
- the top half of each character displays and spaces come out as at signs,
- with similar mutilations to other characters. If I didn't know better, I'd
- say something was imposing a bitmask on displayed characters once I enter X,
- and doesn't stop after it exits. Using vgalib to reset the screen to text
- mode manually doesn't fix the problem. I tried it both with and without
- cacheing enabled on my motherboard.
-
- The "proper" fix is to install the X8514 server :-) but downloading Xfree86
- 1.1 will take me a while (I have to (ab)use my Internet privileges on Delphi
- and then download it over their X.25 link... call it 470 cps using zmodem.)
-
- HELP! I'm confused (as usual...)
-
- ++Brandon
-
- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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