On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I've got a Trident CyberBlade/i1 display controller on my motherboard,
> and am running Deb 3.0r1 and X version 3. When I go from an X
> environment to a console (Ctrl-Alt-Fn), the normal graphics characters
> (like arrows, lines, etc.) are now hacked up. They show up as odd shaded
> areas or what have you. This is true in all consoles, and cannot be
> fixed without a full reboot. A reset command will not do it. I've seen
> this before on other video cards, and I just replaced them. But this
> one's on the motherboard, so no replacing it.
>
> Anyone know of a fix?
>
The only thing I've tried that seems to work is to use a framebuffer
console. We have a few of these running some old SGI monitors and they
had the same corrupted character problem.
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