Logging out changes screen resolution.

[Philip Moller]

Hi all !
Thanks very much Aaron for your advices, I realy appreciate your respons 
to my problem.

Well, now I have done some testing on my machine, and I have change the 
driver for my graficcard to a VESA-driver instead off  the 
S3VIRGE-driver.  To see what happends.
And YES !!!
Now it works allright when I logout of KDE and X into runlevel 3, there 
is no "colorsallad" anymore.
Instead there is a normal terminal, that I can use, as supposed to.

But, now I use the VESA-driver instead off the S3VIRGE-driver, that I 
supposed to have.
How can I get the S3VIRGE-driver to work for my graficcard ?
What is the differenses between the VESA-driver and the S3VIRGE-driver ?
Why is the VESA-driver working and not the S3VIRGE-driver ?

Thanks very much !!!

Philip Moller
Sweden

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:45:37PM +0930, Tim wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 00:52 +0000, Philip Moller wrote:
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>>>When I log out from KDE and X into textmode (runlevel 3), the screen 
>>>resolution changes to colorsallad.
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>>>
>>I see a similar thing, but I'm using Gnome:
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>>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.
>>
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>>>I have a s3virge dx graficcard.
>>>Runing fc4 on a dell Optiplex GX110.
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>>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.
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>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.
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