Re: fonts corruption with 3dfx drm module

Diego Calleja (DiegoCG@teleline.es)
Thu, 9 May 2002 23:07:17 +0200


On Thu, 09 May 2002 14:47:22 +0300
Christian Burger <christian.burger@edb.ericsson.se> escribió:

> I've seen a much more serious problem which seems to be related to this:
> I have AMD Athlon K7 650MHz, Via chipset, Voodoo5 5500AGP, MTTR enabled.
> What is happening here is that when switching back from init 5 to init 3 for
> instance, the system hangs completely and a blinking character appears in a
> black screen. There's no other way other than to power cycle the system. It
> seems to be a kernel panic.
I've seen a blinking character (green, if i can remember) with my voodoo 3 3000 PCI, but
I could change the VT.

The only issue with my graphics card is the corruption of some characters, when switching
X to/from vt. The most affected character is: ! .

Diego Calleja <DiegoCG@teleline.es>
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