This sort of thing is generally a graphics driver bug. Mark. On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > X is started with xdm. My /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers has: > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 > > This is XFree86 4.3.0 under Linux 2.4.22. > > When switching from the X to another console, such as with Ctrl-Alt-F4, > characters are missing from the display. Sometimes a whole column is > missing and sometimes what I type is missing every other character (but it > still works). > > xdm was started from the first virtual console. > > My virtual consoles are managed with init from sysvinit-2.84 and agetty > from util-linux-2.11z. > > When I start X using startx and switch consoles, it seems to work fine (no > missing characters). So the problem seems to appear to be related to xdm. > > I tried "reset" and it cleared the screen, but the missing characters > problem continued. > > Does anyone know a solution for this? > > If this is documented somewhere, please let me know. > > Thank you, > > Jeremy C. Reed > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
