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Willie Wong ha scritto: |
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: |
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>> I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a |
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>> 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen |
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>> colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work |
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>> fine, and the colors are fine, but then I kill X and go back to text |
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>> mode, and the colors in text mode are all wrong, like I'm using a |
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>> dying CRT that's not firing right. I go back to X, and the colors are |
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>> fine again. Back to text mode - same deal. Is X setting some |
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>> variable wrong when it shuts off, or do I need to tweak something? |
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>> Using manual controls on the LCD menu don't help at all. Anyone run |
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>> into this before and might know what to do about this? |
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> Maybe the video card? |
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> I had something similar to this happening on my desktop with an old |
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> nvidia card. Throughout the years, shutting down X may give one of the |
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> following: |
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> a) business as usual, nothing wrong. |
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> b) the computer thinking the screen is bigger than it actually is: |
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> the upper left corner is okay, but the 3 right most columns and the |
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> bottom row (of my 80x25 text display) is off the screen. The text is a |
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> bit bigger than it ought to be. |
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> c) blank screen. The computer still responds: I can "type" xinit |
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> without seeing anything and get back into an X session. Just nothing |
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> is displayed on the screen. |
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> d) funky colors on the screen, which may also accompany b). |
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> I never did figure out what is wrong. The behaviour is transient: if I |
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> just start X again, and then shut-off, it not always give the same |
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> problem. I suspect it is the video card because I remember noting that |
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> it behaved better after a certain version of nVidia driver. But I |
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> can't be certain because the bug is awfully un-reproducible. |
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> This probably doesn't help much... but I just want to throw in my two |
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> cents. |
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Could it be funny stuff remaining in the video card memory? I've seen |
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such eerie things happen in some occasions, with ATI cards. I also |
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remember that old cards had the habit of displaying a "ghost" of the |
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last X desktop, for a fraction of a second, just when X starts. |
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I think it can only be driver and/or X fault. |
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