Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:49:44 +0200 | From | Erik Hensema <> | Subject | Re: Matroxfb still broken in -test6 |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 30 Sep 03 at 9:24, Erik Hensema wrote: > > The simptoms are: > > > > - large white bar to the right of the pengiun logo on booting > > - (mostly) yellow distortion in the background: parts of the screen that > > should be black, are distorted with a semi-regular pattern. Each line of > > scrolling adds around 5 lines worth of distorion to the bottom of the > > screen. The distorion works its way up until the entire screen is filled > > with it. > > Switching to and from another vc clears it. > > Are you sure that you are not running XFree when this yellow distortion > occurs? It looks to me like that you are using XFree with DRI in 32bpp, > while your console uses 8bpp. Do not do that! DRI permanently smashes > accelerator state with its own setting, and this makes any other > accelerated work on the system unusable. So either disable matroxfb's > acceleration, or explain to your mga_dri that "screen invisble" should > mean "you do not own hardware, dude!".
I'm sure I do run X. Thanks for the explanation.
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