FC4 glitches

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:22 PM -0400 6/22/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> Sound like a frequently-reported video problem.  In X in runlevel 5, do the
>> default terminals work, or are they blank also?  (Ctl-Alt-F2, Ctl-Alt-F7 to
>> get back.)
>
>All blank. Otherwise I could have just killed X, without having to reboot.

Yup, seems to be the same problem.  Here are some examples of advice.  I'm
sorry that searching the list doesn't work.


At 12:34 AM +0200 6/17/05, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb K. Richard Pixley um 0:28:
>
>> Can anyone tell me what happened to the virtual terminals which
>> previously were located on ctrl-alt-f1 & friends?
>>
>> In fc4, all of the virtual terminals appear to be displaying a neon
>> green frame, but no text, no getty, no way to access the machine aside
>> from X11, (which appears to be broken).
>>
>> I don't see anything in the release notes about this either.
>
>This is no feature.
>
>> --rich
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160453



At 10:51 PM -0400 6/17/05, Jim Cornette wrote:
>Aaron Gaudio wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:28 -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>>
>> > Can anyone tell me what happened to the virtual terminals which
>> > previously were located on ctrl-alt-f1 & friends?
>> >
>> > In fc4, all of the virtual terminals appear to be displaying a neon
>> > green frame, but no text, no getty, no way to access the machine
>> > aside from X11, (which appears to be broken).
>> >
>> > I don't see anything in the release notes about this either.
>>
>>
>>  I was having lockup problems with the NVidia driver and my Geforce2
>>  MX, and in trying to fix them I attempted to turn off AGP using
>>  'Option nvagp "0"' in the xorg.conf file. This didn't stop the
>>  lockups, but after restarting the X server it did fsck up all my
>>  virtual consoles. Rebooting and moving to the open source 'nv' driver
>>  fixed both issues (but now I have no 3D :( )
>>
>
>You can try using the libvgahw.a from an FC3 version of x and replacing
>the FC4
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
>with the version from FC3.
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