On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
> 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 think I have my brightness turned down pretty far. My screen looks
totally black to me, but with your's and one other person's post, I'm sure
it is just really dark.
As I said, 'reset' is enough for me to return to normal brightness.
> 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.
I did a follow up post to myself. I removed the 3DFX DRM driver and it
didn't fix the problem.
> Could it be AGP or i820 issue?
I'm running a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card, but I have a BX chipset.
> Ake
Chris
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