Re: text console not readable when ctrl-alt-f1

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yes, 
  `make install`
followed by 
  `xdm` or `gdm`

then the screen flashed a blue screen very shotly, 
then the moniter sound inside(change mode to high resolution),

both compiler and linked libs could caused this issue,
 i guess ...

or we can wait till a newer version of gcc-4 out...

On 9/6/05, Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, cc wrote:
> > On 9/4/05, Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, cc wrote:
> >>>>>> using XFree86 4.5.0 on a Debian 3.1/testing system,
> >>>>>> video card is a i740/agp with 8mb ram,
> 
> >>>>>> the problem is, when switch back to virtual console by pressing
> >>>>>> CTRL-ALT-Fn, text on virtual terminals are no longer readable,
> 
> >>>>>> all characters on screen becomes a colored block(red), or just
> >>>>>> gone(black), or something very strange.
> 
> >>>>> If you can build from source, please try the attached patch.
> 
> >>>> its still there.
> 
> >>>> after applied patch,
> >>>> i run 'make' in build dir,
> >>>> then 'make install'.(keep previous build, i think this is enough,
> >>>> isn't it? or should i run 'make World' again?)
> 
> >> It should have been sufficient to `make install` under
> >> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i740.
> 
> >>> rebuild with gcc-3.3 ok.
> >>> could be problem of gcc-4.
> 
> >> Is this true without the patch?
> 
> > yes.
> > w/ or w/o the patch both ok.
> 
> This doesn't sound good.  You're certain you restarted the server between
> `make install`'s?
> 
> Marc.
> 
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