Re: funny colors with 2.1.132 (and 2.2.0-pre3)

[Peter Petrakis <peterpan wn net>]

This is really weird. With the 2.2 pre 3 you're seeing an improvement so
I would think this behavior is software related not hardware. Maybe one
or more of your console variables were corrupted somehow resulting in
the funky colors? How does MC look in an xterm? Also have you tried
logging in as a another user ? If you have another vid card lying around
swap em out and see if thay helps. 

BTW pre 4 just came out.
 
Peter Petrakis

geerten kuiper wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I've tried all combinations of VGA console and FB console activated.
> - neither: boot hangs
> - just fb: uses "dummy console": text screens just show the final output
> from Milo (X is OK.)
> - vga or both: text screen is black during boot, brown-on-blue when
> switching back after X started (X itself is allright.)
> 
> I moved on to 2.2.0-pre3: results are the same, except it's now
> grey-on-black, rather than brown-on-blue (a slight improvement, but mc
> colors are even wilder now.)
> 
> Though the helptext for FBconsole states that it is needed for non-intel,
> for my situation it doesn't seem to do anything useful.
> 
> Here's my graphics card: (the chip itself says Trio64V+ IIRC)
>   Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
>     VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 84).
>       Medium devsel.  IRQ 18.
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x14000000.
> Board is PC164, 366 MHz
> 
> At 15:22 28/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I just gave it a go and it hung at jumping to linux kernel. I'm grabing
> >egcs 1.1.1 from rawhide now and recomple it with that. I'm using a
> >2.1.130 kernel right now though it doesn't have sound...
> >
> 
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