Re: Bunch O' stuff

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

On no, you are correct,

you've even correctly named the card that I have...

oh well, I guess I'll have to replace it,

thanks a lot,

Ahbaid.

Jeff Hogg wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>
> To: redhat list <redhat-list redhat com>
> Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:40 PM
> Subject: Bunch O' stuff
>
> >
> >5) I have an S3 Virge Video Card, my WindowManager starts fine, but
> >sometimes when I exit back to the login screen, the machine hangs with
> >weird vertical red stripes on the screen... if I do a shutdown from
> >within my Window Manager, the shutdown text messages are all screwed up
> >and mixed all over the place....
> >
> If this is a Virge GX card, I may have seen this exact problem myself.  I
> had a card from Aopen called the PT75 Plus II.  It used the Virge GX
> chipset.  I had this same text scrambling effect.  Once you start X up or
> even use anything that probs using an X server (ie Xconfigurator ), the
> normal terminal screens are rendered completely unreadable.  Text looked
> like this:  F i a  N g t j l l   l l j [  ] and apperared to wrap around the
> screen a bit.  I replaced this card with another from STB that used that
> same exact chipset and found that it did not create the error.  Try
> switching out the card for another manufacturer.  I think some of them have
> tinkered around and created some slightly screwy cards.  I reported all this
> on bugzilla as bug 4285.  Hope this helps.
>
> Jeff Hogg
>
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