From: clau@acs.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Lau) Subject: Re: [Q] XF86 1.3, ATI, restore text screen Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 03:40:26 GMT
clau@acs.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Lau) writes:
> haefele@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at () writes:
> > Hardware: ATI Ultra +, EIZO (NANAO) 9080i
> > Xfree86 Version 1.3 XF86_SVGA driver.
> >
> > After exiting from X, the restoration of the text screen
> > fails. I can type in commands but see no echo (only stripes).
> > The use of runx from vgalib fails also.
> > Is there a workaround for this problem.
> > (Xfree89 Version 1.2 worked fine)
> >
>
> I get the same problem, only with an ATI VGA Wonder V5, and Xfree 1.2.
> And yes, I am running in standard 80x25 (but I did try all the other SVGA
> text modes as well, none of them work at all!), there is no video shadowing
> etc..
>
> This problem appears to be because Xfree doesn't restore the text fonts
> correctly after exiting. Does anyone out there know enough about ATI
> programming to perhaps write a little standalone program to force some
> sort of reset on the video card? If access to the video BIOS is possible,
> perhaps just reloading the fonts from ROM would do it.. or maybe setting
> the correct bits etc to force a hard/soft reset of the card..
> This would be useful not only for ATI cards, but any cards or configurations
> which have trouble when exiting X.
>
Thanks to the people who sent me the patch to fix this.. Unfortunately,
I'm running SLS 1.02's Xfree 1.2 (note: 1."2" *NOT* 1."3") distribution,
and I don't have any plans to go to version 1.3 in the near future..
(the new features aren't worth it, and I don't want to spare the additional
disk space Xfree 1.3 needs either)
The SLS doesn't appear to have the link kit installed.. and I really don't
want to go messing about trying to recompile X server code, so is there
anyone out there running a PL9 kernel (library 4.3.3) with the patched
ATI driver for Xfree 1.2 that can send me an encoded binary of the server?
It would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
c4
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