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viniosity

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2005-01-22

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After exiting X there is gibberish

Sometimes when I quit x all the lower case characters turn to gibberish.  (The uppercase text is still recognizeable though.)  I can type and my commands are understood but the console shows a bunch of blocks, down arrows, and other symbols instead of the alphabet.

Any idea why this happens?  I've seen it regardless of which WM I use (e17 or Fluxbox)

aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

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Re: After exiting X there is gibberish

Sometimes when I quit x all the lower case characters turn to gibberish.  (The uppercase text is still recognizeable though.)  I can type and my commands are understood but the console shows a bunch of blocks, down arrows, and other symbols instead of the alphabet.

Any idea why this happens?  I've seen it regardless of which WM I use (e17 or Fluxbox)

driver problem!

Try to use vesa framebuffer for console.

viniosity

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2005-01-22

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Re: After exiting X there is gibberish

I think I am using the vesafb for console.. here is my boot line in menu.lst:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26archck root=/dev/sda3 ro video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@70 splash=slient,theme:darch console=tty1 resume2=swap:/dev/sda2 quiet acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode

Machiavelli

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Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 92

Re: After exiting X there is gibberish

you use nvidia drivers with twinview perchance?

viniosity

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 404

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Re: After exiting X there is gibberish

No.. I have an Intel i915 chipset which uses the i810 driver.