Same thing with me. I took 2.4.0-test4 and compiled, everything went fine
and computer booted, but after I quit X first time everything was very dark
(not completely black!). I barely could see anything at the screen, but
computer still worked fine. I restarted X (without any tricks) and quit it.
Now it was totally black, but still responded to all user events... so I put
'shutdown -r now' and everything was fine after a moment :)
I have XFree 4.01 too, Asus V6600 (Geforce 256) with XFree 4.01 'nv' driver,
Asus P3C-E (i820) motherboard and some misc stuff (isdn, sb live,
aic-7850)...
3DFX DRM isn't compiled to kernel.
Could it be AGP or i820 issue?
Ake
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Chris Meadors wrote:
> > I finally got a kernel after 2.4.0-test3 to compile (it also booted just
> > fine). So I started X to make sure it worked too. It seemed to work
> > fine. So I quit X. I was left staring at a blank screen, not even a
> > blinking cursor. So before panicing, I blindly typed "reset" and bingo
> > everything came back just fine.
> >
> > I think this is probally caused by the 3DFX DRM driver. I don't need it
> > (and I think I've heard that it doesn't even work right now), so I can
> > compile it out of my kernel. But just to let who ever know what I have
> > seen.
> >
> > Oh, BTW, I'm running XFree 4.01 if that has any berring.
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