Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

[DervishD]

    Hi all :)

    I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to the
console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled for
this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?

    Sorry if this seems offtopic, but since I haven't found any
information in X forums, I think I may need some some think in the
kernel configuration (maybe DRI, who knows, I'm really lost with all
that graphics cards crap...).

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:55:27PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
>     Hi all :)
> 
>     I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
> and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to the
> console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled for
> this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?

This is actually an X bug, which I thought I had fixed a long time ago
when I was still doing 3Dfx stuff.

On console switch not all the state is being restored properly,
specificly the font is getting screwed up, simply reloading the font
should work fine though.

I no longer have either an X tree to easily play in, nor a 3Dfx card in
a box to test with, so I'm afraid that you're going to have to bug the X
people.

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Re: Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

[Witukind]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 03:36:36 -0400
"Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@babylon.d2dc.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:55:27PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> >     Hi all :)
> > 
> >     I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
> > and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to
> > the console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled
> > for this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?
> 
> This is actually an X bug, which I thought I had fixed a long time ago
> when I was still doing 3Dfx stuff.
> 
> On console switch not all the state is being restored properly,
> specificly the font is getting screwed up, simply reloading the font
> should work fine though.
> 
> I no longer have either an X tree to easily play in, nor a 3Dfx card
> in a box to test with, so I'm afraid that you're going to have to bug
> the X people.

Same behavior here with Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. I just quickly switch back to X and back to the
console to get the font right, it'll mess up a character or two only quite rarely though, at most 10% of the times
when I switch. I'm not even sure it happened yet since I upgraded to XFree86 4.4.0, but I'm not 100% positive on
this.

Re: Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

[DervishD]

    Hi Witukind :)

 * Witukind <witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> dixit:
> > >     I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
> > > and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to
> > > the console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled
> > > for this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?
> > This is actually an X bug, which I thought I had fixed a long time ago
> > when I was still doing 3Dfx stuff.
> Same behavior here with Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. I just quickly switch
> back to X and back to the console to get the font right, it'll mess
> up a character or two only quite rarely though, at most 10% of the
> times when I switch. I'm not even sure it happened yet since I
> upgraded to XFree86 4.4.0, but I'm not 100% positive on this.

    Thanks for the information. A friend of mine also has this problem
(with an AGP card). Don't know which X version is he running :?

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Voodoo3 2000 is eating my chars!

[DervishD]

    Hi Zephaniah :)

 * Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@babylon.d2dc.net> dixit:
> >     I recently put a Voodoo3 2000 (AGP) card to my home linux box,
> > and now I have a problem in the console. When switching from X to the
> > console, some chars dissappear, or appear cut, etc. I've googled for
> > this, but with no success. Is this a known bug? Maybe an X bug?
> This is actually an X bug, which I thought I had fixed a long time ago
> when I was still doing 3Dfx stuff.

    It happens only sometimes, but happens :(
 
> I no longer have either an X tree to easily play in, nor a 3Dfx card in
> a box to test with, so I'm afraid that you're going to have to bug the X
> people.

    Thanks anyway for pointing :) I don't have a bugzilla account so
I've tried the X mailing list first. Well, this bug is harmless
anyway, just... annoying ;)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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