Re: Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

From: DervishD
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 11:50:56 EST


Hi Witukind :)

* Witukind <witukind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
> > > I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
> > > and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to
> > > the console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled
> > > for this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?
> > This is actually an X bug, which I thought I had fixed a long time ago
> > when I was still doing 3Dfx stuff.
> Same behavior here with Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. I just quickly switch
> back to X and back to the console to get the font right, it'll mess
> up a character or two only quite rarely though, at most 10% of the
> times when I switch. I'm not even sure it happened yet since I
> upgraded to XFree86 4.4.0, but I'm not 100% positive on this.

Thanks for the information. A friend of mine also has this problem
(with an AGP card). Don't know which X version is he running :?

Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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