X problem with 386ix 2.0.2 and mono VGA screen
Randy Suess
randy at chinet.chi.il.us
Sun Feb 25 01:44:45 AEST 1990
In article <1990Feb19.195600.7778 at hcr.uucp> jeff at hcr.uucp (Jeffrey Roberts) writes:
]When 'X' is started up from any virtual terminal, ie: console, vt01 etc..
]'X' starts up with no problem. If I switch to another virtual terminal
]I can see the cursor but nothing else, ie: any characters that I type
]are invisible.
This happens with any mono vga monitor. I understand it is a
bug in the VGA drivers. Quickest way to get around it that I have
found is to run VPIX from a blanked out virtual console. This
seems to re-initialize the vga card.
-randy
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Randy Suess
randy at chinet.chi.il.us
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