Christian Mund wrote:
> I've recently upgraded from Debian Potatoe to Woody, thus from XF86 3.3.6
> to 4.1.0 . Using the old version (XF86_SVGA) there has never been one
> single problem the past 1 1/2 years with my PCI-based "To The Max" card
> with ET6000 chipset and 4 MB of ram.
> The manual says "All cards supported by 3.3.6 are also supported by
> 4.1.0 except for the old ET3000", but this seems not to be true for me.
> When using the new 4.1.0 server with the "tseng" driver it starts up and
> my window manager is loaded, but the screen is full of wrong colors,
> artefacts, weird boxes, etc. And when starting an X application the
> whole system hangs, which already caused some quite serious hd damage.
> First I thought it has something to do with my old 2.2.20 kernel which
> was still left from Potatoe. So I grabbed the sources of 2.4.18,
> compiled & installed it. But this changed only the wrong colors from
> mainly pink to black. So I switched back to 3.3.6 now.
> So does anybody know what's wrong?
To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 add or uncomment:
Option "NoAccel"
You may or may not also need to add/uncomment 'VideoRam 4096'.
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