Re: screen unreadable after running an svgalib app

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From: Matan (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Wed 20 Mar 2002 - 23:33:28 IST


On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, stefan wrote:

> I have written a small test program which initializes svga lib and then exits.
> after running it (or any other of the demo programs included with svgalib) my
> screen turns unreadable and i have to 'su' and reboot to get the text mode
> back to normal.
> all tty consoles are affected. I have a Matrox Millenium G200 Card and I am
> running svgalib-1.4.3-19 on a Suse 7.3 system.
> Is the Matrox card to blame?

I think the g400 driver in 1.4.3 will not work with g200, but the one in
1.9.12 might, so you might want to try that.
If you are usnig the vesa driver, then the option vesatext might help.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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