Re: X server problem since 2.4.0-test5-pre1/2

From: Dieter Nützel (dieter.nuetzel@myokay.net)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 19:06:17 EST

James Simmons wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Dieter [iso-8859-1] Nützel wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I get a black screen after X server shutdown (XFree86 4.0.1 DRI) since
> > 2.4.0-test5-pre1 and -pre2. MAGIC_SYSRQ + K key solve it. But I have to
> > relogin:-(
> > 2.4.0-test3 is smooth and I jumped over -test4. Any comments?
>
> Hi!
>
> I fixed a bug in the console system which uncovered a unknown bug in
> the a few X servers :-( It appears these X servers don't bother to
> reset the color palette correctly when VC switching to a text console. The
> problem various with different video cards. For the NVIDIA X server it doesn't
> reset the gamma ramp. Instead everytime you VT switch the screen gets
> darker and darker. Just to make sure I have spent the day downloading the
> XFree86 CVS [all 230 Megs :-(] and will go threw the code tonight to find
> the problem. I also have several video cards and XFree86 3.3.6 so I will
> be doing alot of testing with different combos with 2.4.0-test4. The
> console fix is right and the X servers have the bug.

Nice work and good luck!

> Has anyone tried the NVIDIA 4.01 X server with the nvidia fbdev driver
> and seen this same problem?

NVIDIA is a bit different on XFree86/DRI...;-)

> Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
> A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.
>
> James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
> fbdev/console/gfx developer \ o.O|
> http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
> http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U
> http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

I forward this to the DRI-Devel List as you can see from the Cc.

Thanks,
        Dieter 

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Dieter Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
Cognitive Systems Group
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
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email: nuetzel@kogs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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