Re: Broken colors on console with 2.4.0-textXX

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@suse.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 12:58:46 EST


> Umm, so why does this not happen with 2.2.X at all? Also the system is
> not really stressed, but I simply do startx, inside an xterm go to
> some random source, make -j, wait till the compile is complete and then
> switch back to the console - its just that it seems that swapped out
> X server or console stuff causes this.
>
> I consider this quite a showstopper for 2.4.0.

Actually I just thought about it. Do you DRI running. When you have DRI
enabled you shouldn't VT switch. It is a design flaw in DRI and the
console system :-(. Disable DRI you you will be fine.

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