On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:45:37PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 00:52 +0000, Philip Moller wrote: > > > When I log out from KDE and X into textmode (runlevel 3), the screen > > resolution changes to colorsallad. > > I see a similar thing, but I'm using Gnome: > > As soon as the PC is running in level 5, the text mode virtual consoles > get corrupted in different ways: Occasionally yellow text on magenta > backgrounds, or more often the usual white text and black background > colours; but always with a blue border, and the first vertical set of > pixels from the text belonging at the left of the screen being on the > right hand side of the screen, right of the 80th column, and above it > (sorry, but I don't know a way to provide a screenshot of a text mode > screen). > > Dropping back to run level 3 doesn't help, the damage was done the > moment run level 5 started. If run level 5 was never started (e.g. I > booted in run level 3 and stayed there) the screen is fine. > > > I have a s3virge dx graficcard. > > Runing fc4 on a dell Optiplex GX110. > > Mine's an on-board i810 (very low spec, I know, but a bog standard > chipset for a very long time), built into a Gigabyte 6WMMC7 motherboard > (which has no AGP slot for a upgrading to a more decent graphic card). > And it runs fine with Red Hat 9.0 and Fedora Core 3 Linux. Well here is the thing. The file libvgahw.a is hinky on some hardware in FC4. So there are two possible solutions. The one I know works is to copy that file from a FC3 system. And I think updating the rpm that gives us that file might solve some of your problems. Or maybe not, but it is worth a try. -- ======================================================================= Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. -- Actor Edmond Gween, on his deathbed. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
