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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6409 comp.windows.x:60465 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 Experiences Date: 2 Nov 1993 14:11:55 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2b5prb$t3r@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <CFtHwE.5qK@festival.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher-gw.caltech.edu richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >(2) The 256 colour SVGA server runs on my Genoa 6400 board. But it > still leaves the screen wrong when it exits - lots of green characters, > presumably because the fonts aren't being restored. Does anyone > else get this? A perhaps related point is that after the screen > has been blanked (because it's idle), when it comes back there are > a number of black dots - perhaps the memory is not being refreshed > at some point? Yeah, me too. When I exit XFree86 2.0, I get a whole bunch of not just green charactgers, but random coloured junk that doesn't look like anything. However, when my screen blanks, and is restored, it looks fine. Maybe I wasn't looking at it hard enough, I am now using XFree86 1.3 since it works for me and XFree 2.0 didn't seem any faster. The video card I have is an ATI XL /w 1 meg ram. I am running the latest NetBSD-current with shared libs (fianally!), I just wish this release of XFree used them. Version 1.3 of XFree also had a similar problem with ATI cards in that it didn't restore the text mode properly. I wonder if this is the same problem? -Greg Tanaka glt@cco.caltech.edu